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The Conquistador with His Pants Down: David Ramsay Steele’s Legendary Lost Lectures assembles fourteen of the penetrating, provocative presentations by this controversial libertarian speaker and writer. The targets of Steele’s acerbic and witty criticisms include Scott Adams, Mattias Desmet, Sigmund Freud, Sam Harris, Karl Marx, George Orwell, Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, and all things conventionally Wokish. Steele’s heroes encompass Immanuel Kant, Robert Michels, Ludwig von Mises, Dexter Morgan, Karl Popper, and all who, howsoever confusedly, come down on the side of liberty, truth, and unsocial justice.

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“Steele’s essays are incisive, outrageous, brutal, and funny. Excoriating Freud, lauding the fictional serial killer Dexter, dissecting Orwell, attacking vaccines, David Ramsay Steele has produced a riveting read that may infuriate as well as enlighten you, and you won’t soon forget.” —Paul Levinson, author of It’s Real Life (2022), McLuhan in an Age of Social Media (2016), and The Plot to Save Socrates (2006) “David Ramsay Steele is one of those rare scholars who writes with extraordinary verve and clarity on demanding intellectual subjects. Whether he is writing about Kantian epistemology, the gross misstatements of his fellow-atheist but, unlike him, no friend of liberty, Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson as an interpreter of narratives, or the effects of C-Section births on IQ, Steele presents his ideas with care, while scrupulously avoiding overstatement. It’s hard to read this collection of essays without being floored by its author’s ability to present complicated arguments with both apparent ease and remarkable cogency.” —Paul Gottfried, author of War and Democracy (2023) and Fascism: The Career of a Concept (2017) “In a sane world, David Ramsay Steele would be recognized for what he is—one of our greatest public intellectuals. His brilliant accounts of Kant and Popper are essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy. The targets of his deadly polemics will not soon recover. If he has you in his sights—watch out!” —David Gordon, Senior Fellow, the Mises Institute, and author of Resurrecting Marx (1990)

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