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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?
The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones.
When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted.
What I mean by that is the narrative extolled by university trained feminists that implies assault victims are victims for life and have been irreparably damaged.
Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found.
The greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself. In particular, it comes from the sheer volume and chaotic nature of that speech.
Women can be victims. In this world, there are violent, exploitative people willing to use and abuse their fellow human beings.
Great cultures of the past were built around grand unifying ideas.
The universities’ mission is to seek the truth. That is not possible without academic freedom.