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Beethoven is a truly odd target for progressive critics, because his views on geopolitics are known to have been, by the highly regressive standards of his time, quite progressive.
We retain the belief that, in supposedly pluralistic societies, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. We urge other scientists not to follow the American example, and to resist the campaign to racialize science.
Lost in much of the fretting (or boasting) about American declinism is the massive lead the American economy continues to hold over China, despite four decades of rapid growth for the latter.
What cancel culture has just mown down isn’t simply Flannery O’Connor or her works, but our ability to view them through any other lens except that of doctrine.
The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.
Optimists, however, will prefer to focus on another takeaway from the study, which is that no significant statistical relationship could be found between Dark Triad traits and PCL (i.e. Political Correctness-Liberalism) attitudes.
Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson on how cancel culture became one of America’s most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke agenda. (Click here to listen to the podcast.) Rob recently wrote a piece for Quillette entitled America Exports Cancel Culture
"Cruising" faced protests and boycotts from gay activists and the LGBTQ+ community, but later became a cult hit.
Much of today’s madness results from the failure to impart that lesson, a failure in which those ostensible repositories of enlightenment (the nation’s institutions of higher learning), obstinately committed to inflaming self-pity and self-importance, are indisputably and indefensibly complicit.
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization.
The Hagia Sophia was the brainchild of a unique figure in history.
Lawyers like to joke that a ruling is probably correct if both sides are equally upset by it.
Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests.
Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it.