Both revered and despised for the image of humanity she presented to the world, and for her conclusions about the Samoan people, in particular.
At once defiant and confessional, Shepherd declared that she had grown to distrust the motives and aspirations of left-wing “social justice warriors.”
Most Chinese and many Western analysts still mistakenly think, however, that China is heading toward a golden future under the current regime.
“To be a man in most of the societies we have looked at, one must impregnate women, protect dependents from danger, and provision kith and kin.”
Consilience makes the case for epistemological inter-relation, put into practice by the congregation of diverse fields of inquiry.
This is an unpopular opinion that even many pro-lifers find offensive. Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, in explaining why he fired Williamson.
Where they have raised both eyebrows and tempers among social constructionism’s growing number of critics.
The lack of ideological diversity seems to be vastly more pronounced in social research fields than underrepresentation in terms of gender, sexuality, and race.
Taken at face value, this estimate is shocking and may on its own be responsible for switching tens of thousands of people away from eating meat.
Criticisms have some merit, but a stronger case against scientism can be made using the philosophical equivalent of the arid reasoning that scientists admire.
Unlike other minority groups – which now self-organise at the smallest provocation – Jewish organisations try to keep calm and carry on.
Thus, the law exists simply to support the interests of the dominant group and is merely a collection of beliefs and prejudices that legitimise injustice in society.
Protestantism was a movement of protest against the Catholic Church and the severing of ties with its centralised, hierarchical institutions.
We must therefore be wary of social or political arrangements that offer us equality of status, without the corresponding burden of self-reflection and improvement.
For only then can reason ensure that the moral and social bonds of universal human brotherhood are sustained.