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The exchange below had already been completed when Hadley Freeman’s essay about the Polanski rape case appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday morning.
This Orientalism has clouded how many on the Western Left understand and approach minority cultures within their own societies.
Events that transpire around the world and large-scale societal changes seem to be far beyond the control of any single person.
Social networks are effective at increasing participation – by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
The fundamental Buddhist dictum is that “life is suffering” and that the only way of transcending this suffering is to face up to it squarely.
Suffice it to say that he hardly comes off as a right-wing cultural warrior seeking to embed himself among the enemy.
A failed hero is a young person who finds that chaos insurmountable, and is swallowed by its overwhelming force.
The match for each, of course, is Tesla. Surprised? Most people have heard his name, but few know much about his place in modern science and technology.
At this point, we must really pause to ask ourselves how feminist theory is leaking into popular culture, and the reason is that it’s activism-driven scholarship.
Personal or collective attitudes that create an invitation to victimhood and infirmity can alter what we expect for ourselves.
What is direct democracy? It is a process of political decision-making that puts power directly in the hands of the populace.
The key term Stendhal introduces, which is central to his vision of romance, is (to use the Americanized spelling) “crystallization”
The West’s own ideological wars had thus moved geographically and were now surfacing in the rest of the world.
The more important problem is that, in addition to getting signaling wrong, the expression also gets virtue wrong.
What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?