Bloom believed that a new “Theocratic Age” was on the horizon — a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung.
The claim that we are “entitled to our opinion” is a professed appeal to the principles of liberty and free speech, when in reality it undermines those principles.
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.
Because of its emphasis on the heritability of acquired characteristics, Lysenkoism found itself at home and became an official dogma of Communist ideology.
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just what’s right…
In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.
A substantial segment of the American public is questioning the legitimacy of police actions, including the use of force. This attention is a Ferguson effect in itself.
To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too.
Tracking the evolution of music over recent centuries.
A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called “The Energy Show”.
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
After discovering the work of Dr Williams, I parked myself under his learning tree and began to soak up as much information as I could.