A collection of 27 posts
Critical Theory was on the oppressive nature of mass consumerism which is closely linked to capitalism but it gradually expanded to cover almost every area of human relations.
The lack of any ideological counterpoise has created a vacuum where ideas have no mechanism or incentive for moderation.
By the end of the twentieth century, liberal democracy seemed not only triumphant but, to some, inevitable.
If our common goal is to encourage reciprocal respect for other individuals, in spite of average differences in group proclivities.
Researchers should systematically assess potential side effects when studying mindfulness treatments.
This discrepancy, it is alleged, is evidence of ‘white privilege.’
There is this fantasy in the West, the fantasy of the noble savage. It is an old fancy and goes all the way back to that puritan, proto-communist, Thomas More.
For Aristides, Rome was the ultimate polis: the dispenser of just government, and through its unique constitution the embodiment of principled republicanism.
White privilege is a central theme of the protests at Evergreen State College, University of Missouri, Yale University, and so on.
The worst that detractors can say about the podcast is that Murray and Harris prematurely endorsed the Default Hypothesis as resolved.
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
“The impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.” Charles Murray
For years we have been hearing that political correctness is cresting, that this-or-that campus outrage represents the last straw, the turning point.
The truth, surprising as it may seem today, is this: The Bell Curve is not pseudoscience.
What it does do – and why it deserves to be widely read – is raise a mass of awkward questions about religion, race, sex, and identity.