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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.
Children get a wider perspective when they’re tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past.
Salinger has been posthumously relegated to the limbo of #MeToo-tainted, “problematic” cultural figures, which probably accounts for the awkward half-silence around his centenary.
Progressives and corporations when aligned form a very powerful coalition, so when they combine to restrict speech or behavior they’re likely to be successful.
It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959’s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start.
Residing in Malaysia in the final years of the Najib administration, one could be forgiven for thinking society had somehow collectively lost its mind.
Instead of using the label “eugenics” to discredit advocates of genetic enhancement, it would be more productive to ask what precisely we deem unacceptable and why.
Does more transparency mean that patients will become responsible for catching errors that doctors themselves should have prevented?
The claim that the work of postmodern philosophers is a continuation of Marxism by other means is quite strange, both philosophically and politically.
Don’t assume that the reason that you feel something, and that it’s right just because you feel it.
The foundations of the avant-garde were built upon the opposition of true and fake art.
Are we venturing into dragon territory with the transitional therapies increasingly made available to transgender youth?
No human institution can ever secure a definitive interpretation of goodness, and it is usually the ones that claim to have done so that betray their own purpose.
It is easy to see what satisfaction the institution of the dependent family gives to all sorts and conditions of men – to the tyrannous man what opportunities to tyranny
It all starts with the “Usage Wars,” a somewhat arcane but fiercely political battle over the English language that’s been raging for decades.