Art and Culture
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The Institutionalization of Social Justice
Last year, Google engineer James Damore was fired after an internal memo he wrote was leaked to technology website Gizmodo, causing an uproar within the company.
The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse than People Think
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
Camille Paglia: It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World
A society that respects neither religion nor art cannot be called a civilization.
Portrait of the Artist as a False Accuser
An artist should be able to create whatever artifact she likes out of the tissue of her own reality—within such boundaries prescribed by libel law.
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Blame Modern Life for Political Strife
Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features.
A Racial Shakedown in Portland
The genre of “white people doing something to black people” is, by now, a well-established media genre that generates easy clicks. But there is also an unsettling subplot that few seem willing to discuss.
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The Unspoken Homophobia Propelling the Transgender Movement in Children
Nowadays, every left-leaning parent and educator seems content to take a child’s word at face value if they say they were born in the wrong body, not realizing that by doing so, an important conversation is being brushed aside.
Consent Isn’t Everything and Sex Is Not Like Tea
Some of the enjoyments of sex have to do with a reflective enjoyment of the experience.
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Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science
While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.
Representation and the Communitarianization of Cinema
Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.