It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history.
Rene Girard’s writing on mimesis raises several interesting questions about the current moment.
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
The essay’s author and summit panelist, Toby Young, says he was blindsided at the sudden retraction two days after its publication.
The central problem with the university administration’s opinion column was that none of the accusations were relevant to the fieldwork and research in question.
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If our common goal is to encourage reciprocal respect for other individuals, in spite of average differences in group proclivities.
In a world where blank-slatism, anti-vaccine rhetoric, myths about the effects of parenting, and climate change denial persist and even thrive.
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?
Now, let’s consider for a moment the practical consequences of this theory for our representative democracy.
We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.
Researchers should systematically assess potential side effects when studying mindfulness treatments.
But is it “oppression”? There has been a tendency in recent years to water down definitions of certain words and then to misapply them.
The bonds of nationalism, ethnicity, and religion would either wither away or perhaps allow numerous tribes to co-exist in and open and tolerant multicultural setting.
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