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The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”
How is art meant to happen when everyone is supposed to be thinking the same thoughts? Art goes against the grain. It’s the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.
The implications of this narrowing of discourse for public debate and the exploration of ideas are dire, and reflect a growing surrender to intolerance at the expense of rational discussion and analysis.
Most of us in Classics presumably read some Homer and/or Vergil at some point during our undergraduate careers, at least in translation, but there is no mandate that we do so.
Great books require intelligence and judgment, and the exploration of sometimes quite fundamental disagreement, from the outset.
The tides of history ebb and flow, along with doctrines such as neoliberalism, modernism, postmodernism, and whatever it is that follows postmodernism.
The truth is that we don’t actually know what ultimately will become of men such as Tunison.
Di Angelo’s writing about stereotype threat, white fragility, structural oppression and so on, on the other hand, is more like dogma than scientific theory.
The reason why commons-dilemma problems are so hard to solve is that they are the result of perfectly rational behavior.
The sad truth is that, faced with a few fake media accusations, the Tories panicked. They made no effort to check the facts.
The indecency of this spectacle was compounded by the fact that Putin was allowed to posture as the savior of Kremlin hostage Naama Issachar, whom he pardoned after his trip.
The issues of our time demand a more serious approach.
Once word got out that this year would be the curtain call for the two introductory Western art courses, students stampeded to enroll.
They believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism.