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“That the discipline of philosophy trains students in highly transferable skills is evidenced by the fact that philosophy majors perform exceptionally well on the LSAT, GMAT, and GRE.”
Kipnis’ cautionary tale dovetails with Camille Paglia’s collection of essays, Free Women, Free Men.
White privilege is a central theme of the protests at Evergreen State College, University of Missouri, Yale University, and so on.
Ranked by concentrated cutesiness, the ‘original’ smiley faces that launched a fad and first bothered me as a kid didn’t pack the punch of what they would devolve into.
History reveals that foundational advances are few, and that subsequent to them spawn—in hydra-like fashion—many more, often arcane corollary branches of inquiry.
The worst that detractors can say about the podcast is that Murray and Harris prematurely endorsed the Default Hypothesis as resolved.
The evidence for the heritability of psychological traits is immense.
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
He counsels them to face the fact that life entails much suffering, and that inner and interpersonal conflict are inevitable – not the kind of thing most “satisfied customers” want to hear.
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.
So adherents to an ideology constitute a race? Islam is a faith-based ideology, with nothing biologically inherent about it.
Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right.
Public criticism of cultural appropriation, even in its more sober and reflective manifestations, duly narrows to a couple of apparent trends.
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
For years we have been hearing that political correctness is cresting, that this-or-that campus outrage represents the last straw, the turning point.