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Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 3: Reason Is Over-rated

by Smitty‘Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.’ The Enlightenment triggered vast improvement in the human condition, but also triggered reactions on the European continent. If Kant laid a left full rudder on philosophy, and Hegel brought philosophy’s engineering plant to ahead full, then Heidegger steadied the philosophy on […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 2: Counter-Enlightenment

by Smitty The Enlightenment’s emphasis on rationality quickly came under attack. Figuring that reality is mechanistic offend pietistic Germans, as it seemed to lead to Deism at best, and atheism at worst. The French absorbed the Enlightenment by way of Rousseau and arrived at the Terror, a.k.a. the French Revolution. Immanuel Kant, if I may […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen R. C. Hicks

by Smitty Explaining Postmodernism is among the better books I have read in some time. Hicks, in a concise, lucid way, serves PoMo’s historical development since the Enlightenment. EP, in my opinion, is to philosophy what Liberal Fascism by Goldberg is to politics. In many ways, EP offers a different angle on a broader slice […]

If Kathleen Parker Was Just A Bit Less Masculine, She Might Be David Brooks

by Smitty Via Hot Air, we have Kathleen Parker going down a list of Paul Begala arguments regurgitated from Newsweek. She very vaguely seems to be trying to dispute Begala’s title “The Stupid Party” as a moniker for the GOP, but comes across more as: “Don’t. Stop. Don’t stop.” Yet another faux-conservative writer whose desire […]

David Lee Roth Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love, But Thomas Sowell Is, To Profound Effect

by Smitty (via The Corner) Click to view what is truly an excellent dialogue, and one worth sharing with all those who have ears. If the guy wasn’t 814 years old [ed: first day, new ears], we should have to press gang him into the presidency. And you can’t write that sort of title without […]

‘Partisan Koch-Brothers Style Attack’

The secret of punditry is to appear to know what you’re talking about. The most successful pundits are those who can utter incomprehensible gibberish with an air of certainty and authority. So I woke up before 4 a.m. this morning, came down to the office and turned the TV on to MSNBC. They were re-airing Sunday’s […]

Dear Bill Kristol …

PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT CHRIS CHRISTIE! Seriously, you’re starting to piss me off here, with your . . . idiotic assertion that the 37 percent of Florida straw-poll delegates who voted for Herman Cain were voting for “none of the above.” Did you notice that little . . . pause, Bill? Kind of a hint, […]

There Exist Things That Make The PuffingtonHost Look Sane

by Smitty Insty is off doing the Founders proud, and he links some ‘Political Eclownomist’ named Raymond Lotta who has apparently smoked a. . .no, too obvious. Under the rubric of dialogue and debate between the “Left” and Right about amending the U.S. constitution, this conference will further legitimate the reactionary Tea Party movement. The […]

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