Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.
As chilling effects go, “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk going to jail” is not all that different from “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk losing my friends and my livelihood.”
Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.
The conflict between management and the young staffers at Equal Voice is not only an ideological divide, but a generational one, and the younger cohort employs a particularly dramatic lexicon.
The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing.
Some progressives may indeed be primarily motivated by resentment, but that does not in itself invalidate the argument to pursue greater equality.
Not only had Carrell hurt the feelings of the Iranian people, but he had hurt the feelings of Muslims all over the world. There would be consequences.
Jonathan Kay talks to Portland State philosophy professor Peter Boghossian about his forthcoming book—How to Have Impossible Conversations. Feature photo by Andy Ngo
Each “side” sees the other’s behavior as evidence of evil, and their own behavior as justified on the ground that we good folks must defend ourselves against them.
He is hyping the problem for political gain, rather than contextualizing it as a challenge to democratic liberalism that should be managed within our existing political framework.
Value judgments seem inevitable in trying to establish the relative comparisons between drugs, and any attempt to compare apples and oranges will inevitably fall short of the scientist’s objective goals.
There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human.
The intermingling of elements—culture, language, religion—is celebrated, while the concept of purity in identity and culture is repudiated as too constricting.
Everyone with political beliefs benefits from systems that they oppose in some way.
Paradise was as real to us as a memory—and even though it wasn’t something concrete, our minds were already there in it.