All That Jazz
e48 Re-branding Marxism, Jim Jones's Cult and the Longshoreman Philosopher Eric Hoffer (with Daniel Flynn)
11 Feb 2021
Here I talk to Daniel J. Flynn on why the Left hates America, bridges and streets named after unsavory figures, Georgie Washington statues taken down, cancel culture, cancelling J.K. Rowling, people who are never exposed to the opposite point of view, social justice ads at Superbowl, Thomas Sowell’s praise of his book, Herbert Marcuse & re-branded Marxism, Cultural Marxism, his experience speaking on campuses & getting shouted down, book burnings on campus, Michel Foucault’s postmodernism, Sokal affair, ‘who can’t you make a joke about?’, Derrida’s incoherence, ‘when it’s about power it’s not about principle’, his Catholic faith, politics becoming a religion, Eric Hoffer, ‘I see human being rot before they ripen’, the weakness of big books, the reason academic writing boring, Milton Friedman’s working background, Marx’s lack of any working experience, Obama, Trump 2016 and 2020, Media’s bias, Russian’s involvement in US politics, Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, Jones’ influence on San Francisco politics, Jane Fonda, Jim Jones Kool-Aid mass suicide ‘reasons’, reasons for optimism. Flynn’s American Spectator Articles: https://muckrack.com/flynnfiles/articles Intellectual Morons: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC29HA/ YouTube version: https://youtu.be/kRDOrUHy6xU
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