Margaret Atwood: Tried on Social Media, Convicted by the Press
Social networks are effective at increasing participation – by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
Social networks are effective at increasing participation – by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
The fundamental Buddhist dictum is that “life is suffering” and that the only way of transcending this suffering is to face up to it squarely.
Walls are potent political issues today because citizens of afflicted nations are suffering real costs from illegal mass migration.
The claim that “hate speech” causes hatred, and thereby causes violence, is superficially appealing, but the more one thinks about it, the less sense it makes.
Where did the social justice advocates, and their associated attitude, come from?
If you are young, that typically involves re-installing an app like Tinder and giving the dice of fate another proverbial throw.
Suffice it to say that he hardly comes off as a right-wing cultural warrior seeking to embed himself among the enemy.
The disproportionate backlash that Deneuve and her co-signers have incited is indeed a sign of the fracturing within feminism.
Happiness experts have argued that happiness is not a stable, unchangeable trait but something flexible that we can work on and ultimately strive towards.
A failed hero is a young person who finds that chaos insurmountable, and is swallowed by its overwhelming force.
What are the intellectual tendencies behind this new intolerance, and how do they creep into popular discourse?
The post-truth era is surely a reaction against elitism and supposed experts.
"Justification for such claims. Getting higher test scores after studying philosophy does not show that higher scores are the result of studying philosophy."
It is an answer looking for a question, the opposite of an open and free search for true knowledge about human beings in the world through time.
Abdou responded to the advice she got by writing a different kind of book altogether. “These were big edits,” she says. “I now had a ghost story without a ghost.”