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Amazingly, even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities.
The ability to fire someone for their politics or deny them a job on account of factors unrelated to their qualifications is a form of power.
Peterson is celebrated in the news media as a champion of free speech and liberal, democratic values, while in fact promoting a far-right worldview.
To understand what happened at Wilfrid Laurier we need to understand what’s causing the gradual advance of leftwing ideology as a cultural phenomenon.
The progress we as a society have made in recent decades—in women’s rights and in gay rights, for starters—largely stems from our overcoming religion-based prejudices.
Postmodernism is a broad school of thought. It has exerted influence throughout the humanities and social sciences.
How about the Inquisition? Not a real reflection of Spanish Catholicism in the early modern period, right?
Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.
As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion.
A unified progressive opposition to Trump can come about only via a return to true progressive principles.
The entire narrative of the Western left is one of structural, systemic exploitation by the forces of patriarchy, economics, and social-conservatism.
The only way to head mobs off at the pass is for individuals and institutions to resist them.
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion.
To get an idea of what’s in store for us next, Australians would do well to look at the debate over gender identity in Canada, where things have gotten, shall we say, mind-bogglingly odd.
By no means does freedom of religion, however, confer on religion or religious customs exemptions from criticism, satire, or even derision.