“Every human being worships something,” we’re told, whether it’s the movement of the planets, alien civilizations, a political cause, science, or even reason.
Salinger has been posthumously relegated to the limbo of #MeToo-tainted, “problematic” cultural figures, which probably accounts for the awkward half-silence around his centenary.
Progressives and corporations when aligned form a very powerful coalition, so when they combine to restrict speech or behavior they’re likely to be successful.
No one at Wilfrid Laurier University would give me a straight answer about anything. It was a climate of evasiveness and secrecy.
It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959’s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start.
Residing in Malaysia in the final years of the Najib administration, one could be forgiven for thinking society had somehow collectively lost its mind.
Instead of using the label “eugenics” to discredit advocates of genetic enhancement, it would be more productive to ask what precisely we deem unacceptable and why.
When we tell ourselves we can be anything we want to be, which is the myth that emerges from Human Potential and self-esteem ideas, we’re setting ourselves up for unhappiness, because it’s simply not true.
Does more transparency mean that patients will become responsible for catching errors that doctors themselves should have prevented?
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The claim that the work of postmodern philosophers is a continuation of Marxism by other means is quite strange, both philosophically and politically.
The fate of the withdrawal agreement, and indeed the country at large, cannot depend on “he said, she said” accusations and counter-accusations.
Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere.