Access to journals is crucial for how they do their work. But few research libraries can afford all the journal subscriptions needed by all of their faculty for all occasions.
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
The lack of any ideological counterpoise has created a vacuum where ideas have no mechanism or incentive for moderation.
What we are witnessing is not really a conflict of rights, but a conflict of conceptions of the good.
The ALSCW started because of the ascendancy of postmodernist theory, but not because of the politics associated with postmodern theory.
Peterson is celebrated in the news media as a champion of free speech and liberal, democratic values, while in fact promoting a far-right worldview.
What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?
The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones.
The case for deferring to scientific consensus on politically contentious topics is much weaker. This is true because what scientists publicly say may differ from what they privately believe.
GMOs interact with wider global systems that they could potentially undermine, with terrible consequence.
When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted.
Education – Lindsay Shepherd and Wilfrid Laurier University, Heal Thyself Editorial, Globe and Mail Lindsay Shepherd and the Potential for Heterodoxy at Wilfrid Laurier University Raffi Grinberg, Heterodox Academy The Radical Left’s Apologia for Evil The Charles Manson Fallacy Paul Berman, Tablet The West’s Leftist Male ‘Intellectuals’ Who Traffic
What I mean by that is the narrative extolled by university trained feminists that implies assault victims are victims for life and have been irreparably damaged.
Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found.
The greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself. In particular, it comes from the sheer volume and chaotic nature of that speech.