A collection of 108 posts
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.
Kendi's view of racism does not begin with people, but with inequity. Which means anti-racism should more truthfully be called anti-racial inequity.
For a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, most Americans and Europeans regarded Marxism as an enemy that had been defeated once and for all. But they were wrong.
By means of this damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don’t logic, cancel-culture Truthers can pretend away the existence of thousands of victims.
Independence of thought is considered the hallmark of academia, but everyone deserves it.
Consider the way charges of “racism” have been used to target individuals.
Biological sex in humans is a binary system.
The protests are not merely the legitimate exercise of constitutional rights to assemble and to petition our government—they are essential for sustaining the moral health of our democracy.
In the absence of any comprehensive database of COVID-19 superspreading events, I built my own.
The city of Rome likely had a population of over a million by the time the Emperor Augustus died (August 19th, AD 14).
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.
The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself.
There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines.
She believed that Europe should not be a centralizing power that incubated supranational institutions—particularly as this model of centralization was just then in the throes of spectacular failure within the Soviet Union.
It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.