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Conspiracy theories foreclose the possibility of explanation, because they postulate unalterable conclusions in search of evidence instead of following evidence to plausible conclusions.
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.
In today’s topsy-turvy world, virtue signaling trumps being virtuous.
Women have acquired unprecedented sexual, economic, and political freedom in the span of a few short generations.
Considering some of the sobering political implications of tribalism might do more to loosen its grip on the tribalists than would more anti-tribalist rebuttals.
Amazingly, even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities.
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
The panic provoked by accusations of racism led the bakery’s management to issue a series of contradictory and clumsy statements.
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
“For a tiny minority, it is about the bloodlust of the battlefield,” she says. “However, for the majority, Islamists operate through nonviolence.
A host of experiences answering the same question across Egypt had me braced for a look of pained disappointment.
We could come up with any number of examples. But is there any more to be said, other than that it is a disposition to be irrational?
Conformity, broadly defined, is a tendency to act or think like members of a group. In psychology.
What would the government consider evidence of discrimination? How much activity counted as a good faith effort toward equal opportunity?
Instead of becoming a poster boy for globalism, Barcelona has been the setting for a powerful Catalan nationalist movement demanding outright independence.