Tag: postmodernism

How America Lost Faith in Expertise
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How America Lost Faith in Expertise

admin - Dec 14, 2017

Some time ago, many public universities detached themselves from the vision of their founders, rejecting their statements of faith and Christian confessional affiliations.  New statements of vision…

Campus Postmodernism
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Campus Postmodernism

admin - Nov 17, 2017

The crisis in academia has been brought to public attention regularly in recent times.  It did not begin overnight, and it was entirely predictable. It is the…

First, They Came for the Biologists
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First, They Came for the Biologists

admin - Oct 03, 2017

In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the Controller Mustapha Mond articulates many of the basic assumptions of a world dominated by eugenics, the abolition of the family,…

Jordan Peterson – Political Correctness and Postmodernism
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Jordan Peterson – Political Correctness and Postmodernism

admin - Jul 04, 2017

Dr. Jordan Peterson discusses the odd marriage of the thinking of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault with Cultural Marxism.  As he notes, postmodernism's discussion of the infinite…

Roger Scruton: Post-truth? It’s pure nonsense
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Roger Scruton: Post-truth? It’s pure nonsense

admin - Jun 13, 2017

The way social media is shaping discourse by encouraging sensationalism is one of the topics of this article. But the thinkers of the left get a pretty…

Reflections on Being the Dumbest Man in the Room
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Reflections on Being the Dumbest Man in the Room

admin - Jun 03, 2017

The tsunami of anti-humanist scholars in academia over the past few decades have left the life of the mind with few defenders.  The attack on logocentricity and…

Jordan Peterson, hero of the anti-PC crowd, just keeps winning
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Jordan Peterson, hero of the anti-PC crowd, just keeps winning

admin - Jun 03, 2017

Some months ago, University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson shocked the world by acting like an academic, and exercising his academic freedom.   The furore that ensued…

How to Talk About Sin in a Postmodern Age
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How to Talk About Sin in a Postmodern Age

admin - Jul 16, 2016

The concept of sin not only affects the transgressions of the irreligious, but the self-righteousness of the religious. “When we define and describe sin to postmodern people,…