American Pragmatism: Comparisons and Contrasts with Nietzsche and Heidegger

Jonah serves up a jumbo slice of rank eggheadery on today’s Remnant to compensate for yesterday’s shockingly (or perhaps mercifully) brief episode. He’s joined for the first time by Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and prolific writer on politics and America’s liberal tradition, to wax Yiddish on topics of both broad and minimal interest. What do academics and philosophers have against the English language? Do ideas actually matter? And what does the nationalist right get wrong about freedom?

Show Notes:

-Peter’s webpage

-Jonah: “It’s Nietzsche’s World, You’re Just Living In It”

-Peter’s first book, Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist

-Samuel Moyn’s Liberalism Against Itself

-Peter’s Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation

-Peter responds to Robert Kagan

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