The Value of Exercising Civility—in Both Oikos and Polis
A willingness to listen requires us to first recognize that our shared humanity means that we have more in common than that which divides us.
A willingness to listen requires us to first recognize that our shared humanity means that we have more in common than that which divides us.
The world of the left generally, and of LGBT identity politics specifically, wasn’t always focused on infinite fragmentation within sects.
Scientific and technological progress cannot happen without people thinking freely—so to clamp down on it is to clamp down on progress itself.
Part of the problem in discussing this is that the meaning of words, as used in some-but-not-all Social Justice-speak, often differs from common usage.
The bottom line is that professional guilds such as the APA and AAP have a demonstrable track record of unreliability when speaking on matters of science.
Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.
In an age of heated polarization of it will be difficult for politicians to convince their opponents that damaging videos are in fact deepfakes.
Victimhood culture gives rise to hate crime hoaxes, then, because it makes them easier to pull off for the same reasons it makes them more lucrative.
Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution.
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York’s public high school system, about how disadvantaged students are being let down by school leaders and administrators who are afraid to discipline unruly children for fear of being accused of racism. This conversation follows Hudson’
We’re blinded by incremental progress in electronic gadgets of marginal utility—new smartphones, larger monitors, and more powerful computers.
Its associated victimhood mentality, and the culture of (now state-sponsored) weaponized sensitivity that this mentality has incubated.
Half of the twentieth century produced emancipation movements that attained stunning gains for women, racial and ethnic minorities, and gays and lesbians.
Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique.