467 – Topics

Topics:
00:03 The New Left’s lost causes: The New Left, a brief history of the left and post-modernism, disowning history, discarding defined values for undefined values, social justice, hollow definitions, old left vs new left, no causes – just venues, ignoring failures in history, distorting political labels, the new elite, yellow journalism, collapse of trust in institutions, no debate in news media
15:20 Inconvenient histories: motives for abandonment of history, civilization’s precious trust, historic eras, a track record of failure, a coming revolt against the New Left, Europeans rise against multiculturalism, Donald Trump, Brexit, rejecting the current culture
28:35 Simply revolting: revolutions – pro and con, establishment thinking, revolting against tyranny, superficial revolts, Arab Spring, revolution in thinking and culture, the abandonment of thinking, clear definitions as essential for clear thinking, no coherent ideology behind Trump, risking a negative future
46:20 Reason’s Reconstruction: constructive political responses, democracy is rough and tumble, politics is personal, respecting differences and drawing lines, tolerance is an advance on respect, re-learning critical thinking, the assault on reason, the tests of reason and faith, embracing causes as self-identity, the necessity of judgment and debate 59:42 END