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If you're still interested in the Hungarian election — which you should be! — I'm doing a panel at Penn today at 3. We'll talk about what happened, what the stakes for Hungarian democracy are, and what this says about the global far-right project.
Watch here: upennmeeting-edu.zoom.us/j/96282978519
Good discussion of liberal socialism in Kahan's history
Very pleased my article " On Liberaldom and Christendom: Alexandre Lefebre at the Intersection of Rawls and Kierkegaard" was accepted by Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy
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Gensanta! Aunque no me extraña. Es parecido a la solución que siempre se propone en EEUU cuando alguien entra a tiros en una escuela y mata a varios niños: mochilas antibalas para los críos.
Y de hecho, la venta de estos productos aumenta tras cada tiroteo... ☹️
¿Crisis económica? ¿Dificultad de acceder al mercado laboral? ¡Nimiedades! O les das de comer así sea uñas cortadas o vas preso.
Theres nothing more "Im an American conservative" than deciding the solution to child hunger isn't feeding the children, but more people in jail.
Burke’s explicit argument: whether a belief is true matters less than whether it maintains hierarchy. “Pleasing illusions” are fine, even good. Vance and DeSantis aren’t improvising. They’re applying a doctrine that was written down clearly in 1790.
Interesting lecture series on Nietzsche
m.youtube.com/watch?v=L0c5...
My more extended work gets into the latter.
A fantastic and clearly written article, but it says, “Liberals and leftists would benefit from spending more time internalizing the wisdom of the right” then listing a bunch of quotes that express less about their wisdom and more about their strategy.
This is not a critique really but just funny
Thanks!
this is the kind of insight I read
McManus for. it’s also where we can see the conservatism of radical liberalism, which often stops at the doorstep of past injustices without effectively unpacking the modal connections to present inequality.
i was reminded incidentally today, by @mattpolprof.bsky.social’s piece on Roger Scuton,
jacobin.com/2021/11/cons...
of Scruton’s weird philosophy of music, which is fundamentally mistaken but was laudable at least for taking Wittgenstein’s gnomic puzzlement over music seriously. still, for all of…
Ignorance — and just as much, indifference — are very harmful to democracies.
My piece on the right's anti intellectualism for @liberalcurrents.com
"Nevertheless Mill, who was very familiar with intelligent right-wing contemporaries like Carlyle and Coleridge, grasped an important point that Kirk rarely acknowledged: the undeniable anti-intellectual streak that has pervaded the right down to Donald Trump" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...
Today @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and @roterote.bsky.social pop the champagne to celebrate Orban's ousting www.liberalcurrents.com/orban-out-un...
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“Pinker seems to think that “Marxism” is the name of a model of social organization, present somewhere in old books and ready to be “implemented” after the end of capitalism. But this is a fundamental misunderstanding.”
"Fascism cannot be appeased; this is a core assertion of resistance liberalism."
Good overview here of the new anti-Trump counter-mobilization and the deeper forces driving it:
Steven Pinker Doesn’t Know Anything About Marxism
@benburgis.bsky.social & @mattpolprof.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/steven-...
It’s amazing just how many topics Pinker doesn’t know anything about and yet confidently spews nonsense publicly about. It’s just embarrassing. Ooo ooo ask any historian about his views on the Enlightenment and prepare to be regaled for several hours on how wrong he is 🤣
Steven Pinker, the favourite writer of Bill Gates and numerous recent presidents, wrote a critique of Marx, and by extension of social democracy, without reading anything by Marx.
Matt McManus and Ben Burgis respond: www.currentaffairs.org/news/steven-...
"Harvard professor Steven Pinker, who writes airport bestsellers where he discusses history and philosophy and economics, doesn't seem to know the most basic things about Marx's political and theoretical views." (via @currentaffairs.bsky.social) www.currentaffairs.org/news/steven-...
Steven Pinker Doesn’t Know Anything About #Marxism. Bill Gates’ favorite writer keeps spewing out lazy clichés about Marxism being a “disaster” whenever it’s “implemented.” But he’s way off-base, and Marx deserves better critics.
Steven Pinker Doesn’t Know Anything About Marxism
https://www.europesays.com/people/30488/
Some things are eternal (Marxists would say “transhistorical”) truths. A will always equal A. (That remains true even…
