Pat Flynn interviews Professor Michael Rectenwald of New York University, who has recently been making headlines for speaking out against the radical, postmodernist views infesting academia–views that he himself once held(!)–and the subsequent attacks he’s faced, both personal and professional, for doing so.
This interview should be interesting for anybody who’s ever wondered about the history of postmodern philosophy–how it started, and how it eventually evolved into many of the radical and intolerant ideas that academia, and our world, are confronted with today.
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2 Responses
Basics, fundamentals, foundation. Philosophy, by definition, is expression of the Love of Wisdom. Postmodernism is not philosophy but rather shifting quicksand mixed with chaos with no standards, expressed often in multisyllabic mish-moshes of meaningless, mud-minded, low-level obfuscation.
Let us now praise the growing list of worthy vocal academics — // Mike Adams, Brian Leiter, Jordan Peterson, Michael Rectenwald, Amy Wax, Bret Weinstein, …