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Even in the darkest period of economic and political collapse, the chain of urban societies that stretched across the Old World was never broken.
Much of today’s madness results from the failure to impart that lesson, a failure in which those ostensible repositories of enlightenment (the nation’s institutions of higher learning), obstinately committed to inflaming self-pity and self-importance, are indisputably and indefensibly complicit.
All in all, more than 130,000 set sail on rafts and boats made of rotten wood, house doors, truck tires, and anything else that could float.
Polarization is baked into the current system, and no reform program will completely level the playing field.
But what I’m describing here isn’t evidence-driven debate: It’s angry, ideologically driven luddite mysticism masquerading as hard-headed conservative skepticism.
When done correctly, woke capitalism functions as a form of costless virtue signalling.
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
Social justice culture is a moral culture, like honor or dignity culture. It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism.
The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice.
Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence.
One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization.
The Hagia Sophia was the brainchild of a unique figure in history.
The Harper’s letter itself bent over backwards to mollify prospective critics, so it’s hardly surprising that the vast majority of signatories felt comfortable adding their names.
Scholars in the humanities are the bearers of the memory of civilisation, and their role in our society is indispensable.