However well intentioned, these programs will likely increase inequities rather than reduce them, and push the nation’s colleges still closer to the low level of its public schools.
Rather than the emergence of a China-dominated world order, as some in the West and many in Beijing propose, science fiction writers illuminate realities that could end up reprising the failures of the former Soviet Union.
Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail.
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Orwell’s most personally searing experience, though, had come in Barcelona in 1937.
Moreover, proponents of lowering the bar aren’t always acting on social-justice motives.
Voinovich’s legacy has a personal aspect for me.
The poverty of Macedon made incense rarer than in Greece or the Near East, and it also made offerings rarer.
A culture that pressures institutions to sanction speakers based on unwelcome ideas may not always or even rarely end in a direct censorship of speech.
The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.
Optimists, however, will prefer to focus on another takeaway from the study, which is that no significant statistical relationship could be found between Dark Triad traits and PCL (i.e. Political Correctness-Liberalism) attitudes.
Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.
During my first four years of occasional construction work, from 2014 to 2018, almost 5,000 workers in this field died on the job in the United States.
Concerns about pornography expressed by Christian and other religious and social conservatives are no doubt sincere.
In ‘Twilight of Democracy,’ Applebaum offers an overly pessimistic account of Western conservatism’s populist turn.