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How much longer people are going to listen to these modern soothsayers. At this point, they are naked lobbyists for entrenched special interests.
Alternative explanations that focus on the freely made choices of men versus women are usually spoken of only in hushed tones.
The claim that “all politics is identity politics,” is not coherent. On one reading, it says something that’s true but irrelevant. And on another reading, it says something that’s false, but would be highly relevant if true.
Professor Hanlon argues that, far from independently causing Trump, many postmodern theorists can actually help us understand the rise of Trumpism.
Suspicious reading is applied to any and every medium as well as every form of individual expression.
The anti-theoretical tone of the service-learning movement, implicit even in the rhetoric of moderates, makes this worry reasonable.
Marx endures not for his relevance, but because his dense writings offer endless material for academic sermonising.
Just as it is unfair to compare idealised socialism to a realistic but flawed capitalism, so too is it unfair for Brook to compare his idealised capitalist vision to realistic socialism.