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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.
"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.
Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it.
To the extent we all care about the important underlying issues, such as fighting racial discrimination and promoting opportunity to all, we shouldn’t allow our culture wars over statues and symbols to dominate our discourse.
Wæver has dedicated his career to the idea that some of the most consequential forms of political activity and statecraft should be viewed through the lens of unspoken societal power hierarchies.
For people without a foothold in the new service and financial businesses, it was harder to make ends meet.
As an institution grows and evolves, it inevitably requires reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart.
We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic.