The implications of this narrowing of discourse for public debate and the exploration of ideas are dire, and reflect a growing surrender to intolerance at the expense of rational discussion and analysis.
Most of us in Classics presumably read some Homer and/or Vergil at some point during our undergraduate careers, at least in translation, but there is no mandate that we do so.
Great books require intelligence and judgment, and the exploration of sometimes quite fundamental disagreement, from the outset.
The tides of history ebb and flow, along with doctrines such as neoliberalism, modernism, postmodernism, and whatever it is that follows postmodernism.
The truth is that we don’t actually know what ultimately will become of men such as Tunison.
One of the weird subplots of this Democratic leadership contest has been the steady output of long, puffed out New York Times think pieces that came off as thinly veiled hit jobs on disfavoured candidates.
Di Angelo’s writing about stereotype threat, white fragility, structural oppression and so on, on the other hand, is more like dogma than scientific theory.
The reason why commons-dilemma problems are so hard to solve is that they are the result of perfectly rational behavior.
The sad truth is that, faced with a few fake media accusations, the Tories panicked. They made no effort to check the facts.
To plan for problems ahead, such as droughts, was a better survival strategy than expecting an eternity of bountiful harvests.
The late Canadian journalist Christie Blatchford gave a speech last year about the importance of due process and the dangers of the #MeToo moral panic. These are the edited highlights. Blatchford also wrote an essay in Quillette last year based on the same speech.
All countries must do right by their own Indigenous populations in their own way.
There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines.
Writing about decadence can be symptomatic of the condition.