Several months ago, I debated Thaddeus Russell on
The Tom Woods Show. The proposition debated was Postmodern philosophy is compatible with a politics of individual liberty. Thaddeus defended the proposition and I opposed it. Here, I want to flesh out some of the points I made in the debate, adding more context than I could marshal under the constraints of the format. For better or worse, this requires a somewhat deep dive into postmodern ideas.
Postmodernism, I argue, is incompatible with liberty, first because
it sees the individual as a mere product, as constructed by language, social factors, and so on. As such, postmodernism effectively