Libertarian Postmodernism: A Reply to Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web

Reason's Nick Gillespie defends Foucault, Hayek, and an "incredulity towards metanarratives."

FULL TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE HERE: https://reason.com/video/2018/09/26/libertarian-postmodernism-a-reply-to-jor/
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People of many political persuasions have identified postmodernism as a major threat to civilization. The most notable recent attacks have come from Jordan Peterson and other members of the so-called "Intellectual Dark Web."

Reason Editor-at-Large Nick Gillespie has a problem with that. He sat down with Zach Weissmueller, video journalist for Reason TV, to discuss and defend postmodernism—a term he says has been widely mischaracterized by its most vociferous critics—from a libertarian perspective.

Watch the full interview above.

Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera by Lorenz Lo.

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