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This is particularly true of Marx and (especially) Heidegger, who gave concrete support to parties and proposals that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.
It’s a shame so many viewers apparently were too busy fighting the culture war on planet Earth to watch the much cooler war being fought against Klingon forces in the inky vastness of space.
Among academics, it is considered a badge of honor to be paid in copies, or not at all. After all, you can’t put a price tag on genius!
The star of Lolita is not Lolita herself, but Humbert Humbert, who hides his obsession with adolescent girls under a mask of tweedy old-world erudition.
Iranians who yearn for democracy and an open, prosperous society at peace with the world are met with overwhelming indifference from the West’s media and political leaders.
Had Henry A. Wallace become President of the United States, it would have been the equivalent of Stalin directly taking over the highest levels of the American government.
The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it.
“Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says.
As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat.
In the course of the semester, we would take the enormous, world-shaping corpus of American film and feed it through the leftist salami slicer: race, class, sexuality, gender, ability (notably not religion).
Very few of us can actually deal with too much truth, so we rarely enquire too deeply into the justifications for our beliefs.
Pride and shame are two sides of the same coin; so if collective pride makes sense, then collective shame makes sense too
If we are looking for a civilization that never engaged in mass violence or destruction, we’re unlikely to find one.
In the ongoing debate over terrorism, Jihadists offers a timely reminder of why theology matters.
In my experience, social-media-driven activists have been driven more to hate villains than to love and honor their victims. And the most hated villain is white supremacy.