Platitudes About Terrorism Are Not Helping
How about the Inquisition? Not a real reflection of Spanish Catholicism in the early modern period, right?
Regressive Left
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A Good Word for the Contemptible Straight White Male
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.
Totalitarianism Rising
As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion.
Free Speech and the Regressive Left — The Road Back to Reason
A unified progressive opposition to Trump can come about only via a return to true progressive principles.
The Berkeley Riots and the Tyranny of the Righteous Minority
The entire narrative of the Western left is one of structural, systemic exploitation by the forces of patriarchy, economics, and social-conservatism.
Attack of the Offendotrons — Tyranny of the Flash Mob
The only way to head mobs off at the pass is for individuals and institutions to resist them.
Free Speech and Terrorism — Whatever You Do, Don't Mention Islam
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion.
Are the Gender Wars Just Getting Started?
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.
The Hijab and the Regressive Left’s Absurd Campaign to Betray Freethinking Women
By no means does freedom of religion, however, confer on religion or religious customs exemptions from criticism, satire, or even derision.
The Social Justice Left and the Alt-Right: Our Divided New World
You Can't Build Walls Around a Culture
It’s progress. It’s the constantly expanding intellectual and social capacity that has led human civilization to every single one of its most mind-blowing achievements.
The Masochists Who Defend Sadists: The Regressive Left in Theory and Practice
John Pilger, Michael Moore, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy, and the Stop the War Coalition have shown their commitment to barbarism.