# Explaining Postmodernism **URL:** **By** Akiva Malamet, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus **Published:** August 14, 2020 --- Akiva Malamet joins the show to discuss the difference between hard and soft postmodernism. Postmodernism is a serious view with important implications. Postmodernism can be used to think through questions about nature of morality, science, and social institutions—yielding answers that both challenge and help advance libertarianism and the case for a free society. What is postmodernism? Does postmodernism deny objective reality? How did Kant influence postmodernism? What is consciousness and what is the nature of our experience? ## Further Reading: [Postmodernism didn’t cause Trump. It explains him](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/postmodernism-didnt-cause-trump-it-explains-him/2018/08/30/0939f7c4-9b12-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html), written by Aaron Hanlon [Foucault’s Influence on Postmodern Thought](https://literariness.org/2016/04/04/foucaults-influence-on-postmodern-thought/), written by Nasrulla Mambrol