A collection of 235 posts
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.
When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted.
The greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself. In particular, it comes from the sheer volume and chaotic nature of that speech.
This debate offered an opportunity to reflect on the respective merits of capitalism and socialism (the Jacobin representatives’ preferred alternative) and lessons from the past that might help us to build a better tomorrow.
What began as a drive toward liberation thus becomes tyranny. What was normal becomes antisocial; what was malign becomes laudatory.
Instead of emulating the Western experience, are increasingly pursuing indigenous paths to modernity.
Great cultures of the past were built around grand unifying ideas.
There are nonbelievers, though, who turn to the Bible for advice and inspiration and are “cultural Christians” in a deeper sense.
Drugs are able to save lives and ruin them; enhance your mind and numb it; heal your body and destroy it.
It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history.
The central problem with the university administration’s opinion column was that none of the accusations were relevant to the fieldwork and research in question.
In a world where blank-slatism, anti-vaccine rhetoric, myths about the effects of parenting, and climate change denial persist and even thrive.
But is it “oppression”? There has been a tendency in recent years to water down definitions of certain words and then to misapply them.
The bonds of nationalism, ethnicity, and religion would either wither away or perhaps allow numerous tribes to co-exist in and open and tolerant multicultural setting.