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Her ‘experiential’ list enumerating the ways in which she benefits from being born with white skin simply confuses racial privilege with the financial advantages she has always been fortunate enough to enjoy.
We won’t find moral objectivity in ever-shifting claims about divine revelations.
Robots don’t complain, they can work 24/7, and they only cost an initial investment and maintenance.
The history of consumerism can be seen be as the growing sophistication to tie our primitive instincts to consumption behaviours.
We have forgotten that the privileges granted to us by society, in tenure and our intellectual freedoms and academic lifestyle, come in exchange for the value we are expectedly to produce.
History has revealed Richter’s political and economic insights about the inevitable fate of socialist experiments to be a warning of eerie prescience.
Artists should be nervous when advocacy groups gain influence over the creative process: Their focus is never art. It’s always their own narrow agenda.
Despite the fact that low IQ is correlated with negative outcomes in a large number of areas and afflicts around 15 percent of the population, we seem incapable of treating it like any other public health problem.
The suggestion that a viewpoint comes from a “racialized frame of reference” is, in fact, an expression of doubt about my ability to be objective.
Intellectual diversity and science reform should be two well-coordinated efforts. Each strengthens the other.
Human weaknesses in combat are well-documented and largely consistent. Technology, by contrast, improves with every passing week.
Christianity’s moral vision was not as revolutionary as a casual student of history might suppose. Nor did it equip Western society with a unique set of virtues that were unknown to the ancient world.
Even the most dangerous things hold enormous potential to save lives.
Suspicious reading is applied to any and every medium as well as every form of individual expression.
Bitcoin’s decentralized network means that regardless of how much corporate America hates some commentator, it can’t stop you from sending her cryptocurrency.