Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
Helen Dale
· 15 min read
Art & Culture
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
How to Build a Bed
According to a local historian the house was probably occupied by freed slaves, possibly even an interracial couple. By 1840 standards New Orleans was a progressive place.
Stephen Elliott
· 10 min read
Quand le 'Bye Bye' Éloigne les Deux Solitudes
Ils y ont vu un sketch qui tournait en ridicule le fait que le premier ministre avait lui-même folklorisé, voire caricaturé les coutumes indiennes lors de son périple. Alors que certains anglophones y ont plutôt vu une moquerie…de la communauté indienne.
François Cardinal
· 7 min read
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Entering the Mind of an Inuit Whale-Hunter
Klarmann and Eklund didn’t care about getting players to admire Indigenous peoples, even if that is what they achieved. They were just two nerds trying to make a good game.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
Truth and Disfavored Identities
Activists and Twitter blowhards, some of them with thousands of followers, have run roughshod over the facts with a false narrative of grotesque privilege colliding with noble oppression that confirmed their ideological preferences.
Joshua Hunter
· 6 min read
Why Quebec Isn't Interested in Anglo Lectures About Cultural Appropriation
The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it.
François Cardinal
· 8 min read
What Is This Thing You Call 'Social Justice'?
“Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says.
Barrett Wilson
· 10 min read
Gillette's Progressive Politics: 'Corinthian Leather' for the Progressive Soul
n the 1960s, being progressive meant expanding the range of permissible behaviour. A half century later, it’s about imposing constraints.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept
As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 13 min read
Headline Rhymes
Views on the news, delivered so smooth.
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Tiers of Pride and Shame
Pride and shame are two sides of the same coin; so if collective pride makes sense, then collective shame makes sense too
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read
In Praise of Boredom, Again
Brodsky said that when confronted by boredom we should “exact full look at the worst.” He said “When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom.”
Caroline ffiske
· 6 min read
Is Western Civilization a Thing?
Appiah is wrong to pretend that distinct civilizations were never a thing.
James Kierstead
· 9 min read