Getting to know the emotional lives of farmed animals and developing the habit of associating meat with animal suffering may be a potent tool in the meat reducer’s tool kit.
Moller musters economic data to suggest that blatant injustices barely show up in the overall trajectory of economic growth in most countries over long periods of time.
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Evergreen State fiasco drew national attention, and since then it appears that the college has only chosen to double down on the insanity.
Kill All Normies is merely a good start in need of deeper research, broader connections, clearer argumentation, and a great deal of editing.
The progress we as a society have made in recent decades—in women’s rights and in gay rights, for starters—largely stems from our overcoming religion-based prejudices.
Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture.
There will never be perfect 50:50 gender parity in every field.
Postmodernism is a broad school of thought. It has exerted influence throughout the humanities and social sciences.
Despite his worldwide reputation as the creator of nightmare futures, many people are unaware of Burgess’s credentials as an outspoken opponent of literary censorship.
Donald Trump’s first major speech in Europe reminds me of the old Jewish joke in which two men ask a rabbi to resolve a dispute.
After a reported 23 sexual assaults and four rapes, festival organizers decided to cancel next year’s event, citing that “Certain men… apparently cannot behave.”
Trump’s speech highlighted these key aspirations, and struck the right notes, for his intended audience—the socially conservative.
