A collection of 136 posts
The intellectual dishonesty and disreputable methods used by these journalists are as bad as the behavior they aim to cure.
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.
But there is a danger that, by talking about this inequality as an all-consuming phenomenon, we will end up creating a flattened and unfair image that portrays all whites in all situations and all contexts as benefiting from unearned advantages.
Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel.
Progressive politicians like to assume that, on election day at least, blue-collar workers and urban progressives will bridge their differences, and make common cause to support leftist economic policies.
Reading this collection is recommended—because, while feminists still generally keep Dworkin at arm’s length, the modern movement contains far more of her than they care to admit.
Integrity requires each of us to bear witness with honest hearts.
Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.
We need to stop wringing our hands over how to save academia and acknowledge that its disease is terminal. This need not be cause for solemnity; it can inspire celebration.
American oil companies didn’t want to topple Saddam Hussein; they wanted to trade with him.
Progressives do accept a genetically caused human nature; but, consistent with the claims of their critics, they accept this much less when it is ideologically inconvenient.
The mixing of environmentalism and socialism may yet become a mortal threat to the current oligarchy. In the American plutocrat-funded Democratic Party, there is more support for socialism than for capitalism.
Nothing is again simple, but everything is clear. This is the great lesson of empathy. We are all the bicycle thief.
Religion isn’t just like any organization or group that affords people the opportunity to socialize.
Not only is no-one allowed to change for the better anymore, no one is even allowed to be understood, much less forgiven.