A collection of 13 posts
A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.
The campaign to label Canada a genocide state isn’t an isolated phenomenon, but is playing out as part of a larger effort to destroy any publicly displayed symbol of national pride.
Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently
I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, in a fundamentalist Christian community called The Lamb of God. What began in the mid-1970s as a small group of born-again hippies who played music, prayed together, and proselytized to whoever would listen about Jesus’s unconditional love and mercy, descended
The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard.
In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question.
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
We are natural conformers because, more often than not, it keeps us alive and in good standing with our peers.
The threat is embedded in innocuous seeming administrative protocols, which serve to obscure and diffuse the means of authority
Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.
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.
Ideological intolerance in academia and the media has dramatically narrowed the range of ‘acceptable’ ideas, beliefs, and even topics of discussion.
Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world.