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The transhumanist perspective insists that humans have a distinctly separate mind and body, and that what happens to one need not affect the other.
Progress tends to be defined as 1) change, 2) which is for the better, and crucially 3) which is driven by humans rather than arrived at evolutionarily.
Grope-gate has emerged at a time when the #MeToo movement is suffering a crisis of moral legitimacy in Canada.
The movement that has popularized the term ‘toxic masculinity’ shares tools and conclusions with those who see signs of ‘white supremacy’ everywhere they look.
While some black folks are driven to tolerate the excesses of the radical left by a fear of white power, the latter seem largely motivated by envious resentment of it.
When the story broke that that Dr. Summers had attributed the STEM gender gap to a lack of aptitude on the part of women, What was he thinking?
Today we are witnessing an irrepressible and admirable pushback against the specters of ‘cultural relativism’ and moral ‘nihilism.’
A better strategy would be for the American Left to celebrate Jefferson and his progressive legacy, just as their forebears once did.
The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
The most influential newspaper in the world, the standard bearer of the Establishment, is announcing that free speech is, or should be, over.
Change is wrought by those willing to lead or force others toward it. Which is why we are skeptical that most people truly believe every position they express.
Unfabling the East is a brilliant new book by Jürgen Osterhammel that goes back to the original sources, and carefully reconstructs the evolution of European views of Asia.
The real problem with this book is that, to Zimmer and many other people, genetics itself is the enemy.
Recognising that there is a problem is half the battle.
Heterodox Academy meeting is any indication, heterodox thinking poses substantially more problems than even the hardworking leaders of Heterodox Academy realized.