Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to djr. If you’re seriously asking for information sources here, I’d recommend spending some time reading publications like The National Review or The American Conservative or checking out some of the leading groups in the classica…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. So do you end up agreeing or disagreeing with Hart that “tradition…is incapable of enactment or repeal by human fiat”? LikeLike

The United States has just spent the last two decades fighting a series of ruinous wars, has created a million-person refugee crisis in Afghanistan, and is now fixated on the prospect of supporting a proxy war in Eastern Europe that might well go nuclear. So what, in the midst of all this, has genuinely engaged…

In reply to Josh. Well, have you paid any attention to conservative discourse in the last three to four decades? Do you know very many conservatives? I do, and virtually all of them are critical of academia, especially the humanities. LikeLike

“One day, an authority figure steps up and proclaims with great, recognized authority that ‘X is our tradition’” Indeed, a lot of legislation historically seems to originate this way — as the official restatement and codificatio…

In reply to boydstun. Ironically, Frege had also used the term, but in a non-political sense, to refer to the realm of thinkable contents (public but imperceptible), distinct from the outer real (public and perceptible) and the inner realm (private and…

I’d like to follow up on some of your statements. Do you have citation for the comment that criticisms of academics are frequently conservative and non academic. Thank you LikeLike

Minor Note to the Side In The Ominous Parallels, Peikoff mentioned Arthur Moeller van den Bruck as the one who had coined the name Third Reich (36). That attribution had been regular in the literature.[1] It is erroneous. Moeller’s usage of the name is…