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n the 1960s, being progressive meant expanding the range of permissible behaviour. A half century later, it’s about imposing constraints.
If we are looking for a civilization that never engaged in mass violence or destruction, we’re unlikely to find one.
As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Bun’s frankness about her own frailties lends her reporting the credibility and moral authority of honesty—the authenticity with which she writes closes the distance between journalist and reader, and her videos transport us into the world she covers.
Brodsky said that when confronted by boredom we should “exact full look at the worst.” He said “When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom.”
Appiah is wrong to pretend that distinct civilizations were never a thing.
There’s nothing wrong with teaching Western Civilization or the Western classics alongside other cultural traditions. At the same time, the way Classics used to be taught is gone for good.
“Every human being worships something,” we’re told, whether it’s the movement of the planets, alien civilizations, a political cause, science, or even reason.
No one at Wilfrid Laurier University would give me a straight answer about anything. It was a climate of evasiveness and secrecy.
It is time we started discussing global immigration in a more grown up way in the hope of coming up with a sustainable solution, rather than assuming the worst of each other and resorting to name-calling and selective moral outrage.
The foundations of the avant-garde were built upon the opposition of true and fake art.
Are we venturing into dragon territory with the transitional therapies increasingly made available to transgender youth?
No human institution can ever secure a definitive interpretation of goodness, and it is usually the ones that claim to have done so that betray their own purpose.
Younger women are the most left wing in their voting habits and older women the most right wing when we compared voters by age and gender.