Talking about Postmodernism with Akiva Malamet

It feels like nobody knows what postmodernism is, yet everyone has an opinion about it. Today’s conversation with Akiva Malamet is an effort to bring some clarity to an unclear topic. We explore the basic ideas of postmodernism and then move on to their implications for culture, society, politics, and individuals. About my guest: Akiva Malamet is completing his degree in Government at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, where he was a long-time senior member of the RRIS Debate Society. He is a contributor to the sites Liberal Currents and Sweet Talk Conversation. His paper “Spontaneous Order as Social Construction: A Social Analysis of Emergent Institutions” was a co-recipient of the 2018 Carl Menger Award from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. Some stuff we mention during the conversation: Akiva’s essay introducing postmodernism https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/postmodernism-libertarian-introduction Jay Garfield interview about Buddhist philosophy https://wisdomexperience.org/wisdom-podcast/jay-garfield/ Adrian Vermeule’s call for Catholic fascism https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/ “Gender as Art” by Jason Kuznicki https://www.liberalcurrents.com/gender-as-art/ Jean-Francois Lyotard, “The Postmodern Condition” https://amzn.to/3dKc0Rj