Michel Foucault visited Iran in 1978 and praised its budding theocratic revolution as a site of resistance against the liberal-capitalist West he hoped to subvert. One reason why the usual suspects are still supporting the Iranian regime. I have a lecture on Foucault's

Sigh. The Postmoderns believe in pregnant men, and the Premoderns believe in pregnant virgins. But we're supposed to ridicule the Modern aspiration to rationality?

The full course can be accessed here:

Free sample lecture: "The Birth of the Modern," introducing my 8-lecture Modern Philosophy course. https://t.co/ko1S4O9OoF. What makes modern philosophy revolutionary? How does Francis Bacon propose a forward-looking philosophy of discovery? Full course link in the comments.

Love this.

(I understand that this was a prototype project and has not been rolled out systematically.)

I think this is a cool idea. I am sure my left-wing friends will soon organize protests on the grounds that it exploits the crows, alienates their labor, and appropriates their culture.

Since the Enlightenment ...

Perhaps you've seen this silly quotation: "Modern man is in a terrible predicament. He is helplessly enamored with the beauty of what the old world built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to build it." It's usually acribed to author Jeremy Tate and paired with an

Questionable decision at the arkport.

Thank you, Joshua.

A common pattern: "The law has told us we cannot do some thing, but we really want to do that thing, so we will ignore the law." * Example from one side: tariffs against some to benefit others. "The law has told us we cannot do tariffs, but we really want to do tariffs, so we'll

Looks to me like there's a huge market opportunity for a radically new title: *What Philosophy Is*.

Great news for Peru. I've taught de Soto's views in my Business Ethics course. And one must like a guy who named his dogs 'Marx' & 'Engels' because "they are German, hairy, and have no respect for property." https://t.co/PBeheTrM0y

On how Kant has been fundamental to modern cultural developments far beyond philosophy. Recorded in Norway. Thanks, @BrittonWFrost.

Happy to see that the Spanish translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is available in the Kindle Unlimited program. https://t.co/OeQD4JQzMm (English audiobook here: https://t.co/sfjuMXd9rT.)