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The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.
Democracies, on average, are becoming more authoritarian.
Clinton’s poor performance with women was not a result of race being especially salient in this cycle.
Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched.
Plans have now been announced to once again adapt Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the screen but this time with “Trump hanging over it."
Elon Musk offers a good example of how technocrats don’t always get it right, and why trusting them with the world’s progress is risky.
But the virtue of The Case Against Education is that Caplan synthesizes many lines of research that approach the question with different methods.
It later emerged that the RedState firings were part of a larger effort by the site’s owner Salem Media Group to clamp down on criticism of Trump.
The Starbucks incident parallels one of the historical cruces of the scientific revolution.
The ignoble tradition of Jung-bashing has had a steady following by lazy minds ever since, most recently evidenced in Jeet Heer’s article, Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths.
Common fear of ‘tribalism’ reveals them to be members of a particular kind of ‘tribe,’ one that perpetuates its power by accusing opponents of tribalism.
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
The solution seemed to be clear: educate the public and they will accept the science.
Source of conflict between the two best-selling authors was the extent of white privilege, and the question of how it should be accounted for in public debate
Tribalism isn’t a toy and academics who think they can regulate it up and down like a set of dials to determine who’s in which group