This increases the likelihood that individuals who cross the line by discussing sex differences will be warned not to repeat the behavior and will probably be okay as long as they comply.
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
A society that respects neither religion nor art cannot be called a civilization.
An artist should be able to create whatever artifact she likes out of the tissue of her own reality—within such boundaries prescribed by libel law.
Consumption decreases when people abandon animal products for aesthetic reasons, and aesthetic converts might become moral converts later.
Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features.
The genre of “white people doing something to black people” is, by now, a well-established media genre that generates easy clicks. But there is also an unsettling subplot that few seem willing to discuss.
Fortunately, there are measures that each of us can take to keep the excesses of dimensionality reduction in check. Unfortunately, they all require a potentially uncomfortable dose of humility.
Nowadays, every left-leaning parent and educator seems content to take a child’s word at face value if they say they were born in the wrong body, not realizing that by doing so, an important conversation is being brushed aside.
Some of the enjoyments of sex have to do with a reflective enjoyment of the experience.
While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.
Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.