There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change.
One of the forefathers of the modern internet, John Gilmore, famously remarked that the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
As a young man the great economist was influenced by positivist circles in his native Austria. He expressed no faith or belief in God, and adopted a scientific materialism.
We do this with surprising ease, often basing sustained bouts of deliberate nastiness on nebulous reasoning.
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.
The model was indeed full-figured, and her presence will come as a kind of reassurance to anyone who today considers themselves overweight.
Why? For one, there is very little political and ideological diversity in the social sciences.
It’s about vision and seeing principles through action. It’s about creativity and intuition blended with pragmatism and fact. Above all, politics is what we make of it.
Those already familiar with the deformations that these terms represent may take note of the supercilious attitude that permeates the turgid passages in which they appear.
The feeling of helplessness that arises from passively consuming distant events is now central to the relationship of the individual to the world.
The most charitable conclusion would be that she is either dishonest or deluded.
Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.