Leadership entails setting the global agenda whenever possible. That means being active rather than reactive. And that active agenda is comprehensive.
The misguided progressives who denounce “Islamophobia” and turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of, say, women, gays, and adherents of other religions in Muslim communities or in Islamic countries constitute what Maajid Nawaz has dubbed the “regressive left.”
Our culture, dominated by the 140 character limit, is particularly apt at creating tempests in teacups, each evoking an explosion of drama that exhausts itself in a mere matter of days (or in some cases a matter of hours).
The strategies of mob science are uncomplicated and as both Rushton and Gottfredson would learn first hand, they are terrifyingly effective.
Moral cultures reflect their social structures, and victimhood culture is no different: It occurs in a context where there is cultural diversity, social equality, and stable authority.
For more than a millennium a term such as “anti-Jewish” would have made more sense than “antisemitism”.
Pragmatists differ from rationalists by viewing unfiltered criticism of religion as a painfully counterproductive way to proceed.
Williams concludes the interview by calling for greater intellectual diversity in the academy and a return to an open marketplace of ideas.
If you discount Islamic doctrine as the motivation for domestic violence and intolerance of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, you’re left with at least one implicitly bigoted assumption.
The cynical attitude that anyone in fear of losing their job as a result of mass immigration must be a hopeless loser is endemic to upper middle-class culture.
Are women so smothered by the blanket of victimhood that we can’t concede that men face issues too? Isn’t the hallmark of intersectionality finding victimhood everywhere?
As many of these confusions pertain to some variety of liberalism — classical, neo, libertarian — let’s start clarifying things there.
We should start at the beginning, which is to say, conception. That magical moment when sperm meets egg holds an important insight.
Charlie Hebdo is suggesting that once individuals change their ways as a product of fear, they go down the road of sanctioning demands which impinge on other people’s rights.
Bloom believed that a new “Theocratic Age” was on the horizon — a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung.