My Interview on Redeemer Broadcasting

Dan Elmendorf of Olivebridge, NY interviewed me on his Redeemer Broadcasting radio chain, which has seven stations in upstate New York, New Jersey, and Maryland.  The interview will air on May 27, and it is linked here. The stations include WFSO, WNEQ, WYNE, and WXMD. The interview concerns the link between university scientism and political intolerance.

University Scientism and American Totalitarianism

Is there a difference between (a) the American pragmatic political approach, a cornerstone of the claim of American exceptionalism, and (b) mere political caprice in the management of the economy and society such as characterized the fascist and national socialist economic policies? Academic research, especially in the fields of economics, sociology, and psychology, supposedly contributes to the public policy making process, differentiating the American third way from the fascist third way by making it rational.

But what if American pragmatism is based on a sham? What if social science is but scientism? Then, American economic and social policy is guided and influenced by the moral whimsies of social scientists whose moral sense has been addled in part by scientistic training, in part by careerist opportunism, and in part by political pandering. In that case, social science higher education can be viewed as any other propaganda device.  Perhaps American pragmatism and American exceptionalism are equivalent to any other authoritarian or totalitarian form.