A collection of 109 posts
Personal or collective attitudes that create an invitation to victimhood and infirmity can alter what we expect for ourselves.
Technologies arising out of our improved understanding may be developed to enhance IQ and considers some of the ethical questions that gives rise to.
The key term Stendhal introduces, which is central to his vision of romance, is (to use the Americanized spelling) “crystallization”
Why would people take academics’ more ridiculous pronouncements so seriously, or seriously at all in the case of communication studies departments?
Our memories are deeply fallible and highly suggestible.
The more important problem is that, in addition to getting signaling wrong, the expression also gets virtue wrong.
The mourning traditions of earlier cultures prescribed precise patterns of behavior that facilitated the public expression of grief and provided support for the bereaved.
Quebec is very much part of that great cultural mash-up we call Western culture.
What is most needed in our present crisis is a philosophy that can move through the impasse between modernism and postmodernism.
The battlefield is indeed the university. How, then, does he characterize these two opponents?
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
The ALSCW started because of the ascendancy of postmodernist theory, but not because of the politics associated with postmodern theory.
Peterson is celebrated in the news media as a champion of free speech and liberal, democratic values, while in fact promoting a far-right worldview.
The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones.
The case for deferring to scientific consensus on politically contentious topics is much weaker. This is true because what scientists publicly say may differ from what they privately believe.