He counsels them to face the fact that life entails much suffering, and that inner and interpersonal conflict are inevitable – not the kind of thing most “satisfied customers” want to hear.
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
We need a strategy that insulates us from hate, no matter what empirical research uncovers about the world.
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.
So adherents to an ideology constitute a race? Islam is a faith-based ideology, with nothing biologically inherent about it.
“The impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.” Charles Murray
Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right.
Public criticism of cultural appropriation, even in its more sober and reflective manifestations, duly narrows to a couple of apparent trends.
The desire to censor is not entirely impossible to understand. When you encounter an idiotic YouTube comment or forum post.
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
Nowadays, researchers can access a wealth of software packages that can readily analyse data and output the results of complex statistical tests.
For years we have been hearing that political correctness is cresting, that this-or-that campus outrage represents the last straw, the turning point.
ABC canceled one of its most popular shows, “Last Man Standing” starring conservative comedian Tim Allen.
The European Union is essentially therefore a modern avatar of the empire, based on Richard von Kühlmann’s imperial concept of “limited sovereignty.”
Does inverted nationalism really influence the elite?