Weaponizing Words: Language and Oppression
Language does not form our view of the world and its inhabitants in any meaningful sense.
Robert D. King
· 10 min read
Culture Wars
A collection of 176 posts
The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity
Even historians, who have many years to consider the object of their study, inhabit “the twilight of probability.” How can those journalists tasked with writing “history’s first draft” imagine that they know which way true “harm” lies?
Lorraine Clark
· 7 min read
Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab
The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.
Stuart Reges
· 15 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School
The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.
Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller
· 10 min read
Then They Came for Beethoven
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.
Daniel Lelchuk
· 7 min read
International Scholars Must Resist the American Campaign to Inject Racial Tribalism Into Science
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.
Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz
· 8 min read
Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature
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.
Charlotte Allen
· 13 min read
At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate
The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.
Julian Vigo
· 10 min read
The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right: A New Study Shows They’re More Alike Than Either Side Realizes
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.
Zaid Jilani
· 5 min read
Remembering Cancel Culture’s 40-Year-Old Stepfather
"Cruising" faced protests and boycotts from gay activists and the LGBTQ+ community, but later became a cult hit.
Adrian Nguyen
· 7 min read
Of Heroic Deeds and Hysterical Masses
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.
David A. Eisenberg
· 8 min read
Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help'
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
Nick Comilla
· 8 min read
As Statues Fall, What's the Best Way to Evaluate History's Heroes?
One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization.
Steven D. Hales
· 7 min read
The Hagia Sophia Should Remain a Beacon to All
The Hagia Sophia was the brainchild of a unique figure in history.
Lars Brownworth
· 9 min read
Arguing in America
Lawyers like to joke that a ruling is probably correct if both sides are equally upset by it.
Geoff Costeloe
· 6 min read