They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion.
We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. There are monsters inside each of us. Those monsters must be made coherent, and given their place, or they will consume us.
Greer herself emphasized this point in drawing a distinction between “reform” feminism and “revolutionary” feminism.
There is this fantasy in the West, the fantasy of the noble savage. It is an old fancy and goes all the way back to that puritan, proto-communist, Thomas More.
The value of winning a kayaking trip in a raffle is measured in its consumption utility, not its monetary value.
Germany is a country which takes politics seriously. Chancellor Angela Merkel is an academic herself.
“Private tuition can be harmful to the long-term academic prospects of children, a leading London headteacher warned today.”
To figure out what’s really going on, it’s worth taking a broader look at today’s teens – a generation of kids I call “iGen” – and the environment they’re living in.
If you’re easily offended, it’s hard to understand the world.
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
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Comedians poke fun at the absurd, unreasonable aspects of our thought, our behaviour and our societies so it is tempting to assume that they are rational themselves.
Sometimes people use it to mean pretend outrage, in which people cry “crocodile tears” over things that don’t really upset them.
Within the lens of Western culture, it is sex and not money that is the primary root of all evil.
Western leaders and policymakers who bemoan the referendum can, if they choose, flatter themselves as “realists.”