Standard gender pronouns are not an honorific or a mark of respect, they are simply an instrument of categorisation that emerged with the evolution of language.
Brooks blames America’s bitter politics on the “outrage industrial complex”: the media, politicians and commentators who entice voters, attract television viewers, and sell books and event tickets premised on hatred of the other side.
Peterson could remain detached from the people who seek his help, but he is courageous enough to connect with their pain, and thereby render himself vulnerable in the public forum.
The main problem with sex eliminationism is that, in a nutshell, it leaves us with no adequate language to describe a politically important feature of material reality.
Jonathan Kay talks to Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University, about the limits of libertarianism, viewpoint diversity in Washington, D.C., and Marginal Revolution University, his new online education venture.
There is little evidence to justify why the provider role has been held in such low regard.
In terms of moral rules, secular humanism is indistinguishable from a religion.
An elite discourse condones destructive behavior and reinterprets a denigrating hand-to-mouth existence as an alternative lifestyle
Houellebecq depicts a Europe where French culture is a bad joke.
The drive against bourgeois aspirations underpins an emerging neo-feudal system in which people remain renters for life.
Because many conservative journals have given up on the subject of art entirely, one is tempted to ask what conservatives are seeking to actually conserve.
The idea of segregating musical styles by race sits in opposition to what we know about the way music is made—which is often through cultural cross-pollination.
Instead of dispassionately inquiring into scientific questions, facts from politically controversial research are being distorted out of concern for how the data might be used by the worst among us.
Racists themselves succumb to a version of Don Quitoxe’s delusions when life becomes overwhelming or tumultuous.
Because calamities are uniquely egalitarian in their capacity to kill indiscriminately, they dampen the qualities that make us different.