What is this guy talking about?

Modernism a beneficiary of war in Iraq

The grand modernist-postmodernist coalition is, then, the result of a friendly takeover, in which Derrida remains the CEO of a substantial minority interest.

Once I learned that reporters often don't understand the substance of what they write about, I began to see evidence of it all around me. This is a perfect example.

I'm no philosopher, but even I can tell this is hogwash. No self described "post-modern" believes that one's epistemology dictates one's politics. That sort of rationalism is the antithesis of "post-modernism." Thus, the "post-modern" professors mentioned in this article would not be at all suprised to discover that, on foreign policy issues, they agree with the "modern" professors mentioned in this article. And they certianly wouldn't admit that their political agreement is evidence that the "moderns" were right about epistimology.

So, to summarize, this article fills us in on this fact: some left-leaning mostly-european "post-modern" professors agree with some left-leaning mostly-european "modern" professors that European foreign policy is better than American foreign policy.

This guy gets paid for this?
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 2:02 PM