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A collection of 134 posts
Age of Amnesia
The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.
Neutralizing Ngo: The Apologetics of Antifascist Street Violence
In a vein similar to Orwell’s lexicology of apologetics, criminological theory may help inform an understanding of how speech is used in defense of the indefensible at another level of analysis—that of rhetorical strategies.
Immigration Policy and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Liberalism—the Case of Israel
In many countries, immigration policy has turned into a litmus test for democratic sovereignty itself.
How Antifa's Apologists Fell in Love With Street Violence
Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.
Whither Léon Blum?—Paul Berman's Misplaced Faith in Bernie Sanders
Jeremy Corbyn’s record of praising terrorist organizations and celebrating artwork that looks like it was commissioned by Joseph Goebbels to the long list of condemnations of Labour issued by Jewish organizations in the UK.
A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet. This Is How I Survived
Poetry is made of breath before any sound, any syllable, is uttered . The inhalation is the first word — and reclaiming my craft taught me how to breathe again.
The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On
The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.
Sedentary Revolutionaries: Two Academics Who Joined the Nazi Party
No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.
My Testimony on Reparations
Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government.
'The Guarded Gate' Review: Elites and Their Eugenics Projects
The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.
A Modest Defence of the Missionary Position
The irony is that what we often consider the most boring, the most quotidian, the most comically old-fashioned, and unremarkably ordinary way to have sex with another is also the way we encounter our deepest selves because we transcend ourselves to find union with another.
Superior: The Return of Race Science—A Review
It is reasonably entertaining to read, and does make some valid points about the misuse of “race science.” Unfortunately, it is also tendentious, dogmatic, and seriously misleading about the current state of scientific knowledge.
It’s Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders
The intellectual dishonesty and disreputable methods used by these journalists are as bad as the behavior they aim to cure.
Bukowski: Recommended Reading for the Damned
Were he still alive, he most certainly would not meet the demands of today’s “sensitivity readers,” nor those imbedded in the big publishing houses who scan a writer’s work for transgressions, nor those on social media who do the same with a writer’s personal life.