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There’s Nothing Stopping You Now: Coleman Hughes on Race and Poverty in America | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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The Importance of Agency in Postmodernism

Colman: I love to hear your thoughts on post modernist theories, these reified philosophies associated with various forms of critical theory. My sense from this is like the greatest harm that's done by these theories is that it robs people of agency and leaves them with a toxic combination of anger and resignation. You know, I think we're up against code. Colman: What is your sense of the role that various, you know, critical, postmodernist theories play in impeding us really for making a difference?

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