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Activism and the Conflict of Visions
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I recently read Thomas Sowell’s classic work A Conflict of Visions. In it, he attempts to describe two different foundational worldviews, or visions, which are implicit in the thinking of those who…
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Enlightenment Thought: A Very Brief Primer
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Free inquiry and free trade.
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Mad Online; Or, The Enemy of My Enemy
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In The Fragile Absolute Slavoj Zizek wrote of the Balkans that they’re “always somewhere else, a little bit more towards the southeast. . . .” Pundits seem part of a parallel phan…
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The Necessity of Postmodernism in the Post-Truth Age
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Many critics of postmodernism engage in ill-informed reductionism. Postmodernism is a valuable critical tool for deconstructing faulty ideological premises.
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Are Campus and Media Conservatives Asking For It?
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Recent interruptions of Christina Hoff Sommers at Lewis & Clark College (and reactions to Bari Weiss’s New York Times editorial about them), and the Atlantic’s quick hiring and firi…
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What We’re Reading #7 — April 9th, 2018
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Welcome to What We’re Reading, an exclusive fortnightly recap for our supporters at the Affiliate Publisher level and above. This is where we highlight articles, books, and blogs we’ve been reading…
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In Defense of Hypocrisy
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“As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that …
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Freedom of Speech and the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard
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To insist that defenders of freedom of speech must listen to you is to misunderstand the concepts of freedom and the marketplace of ideas.
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Because It Feels Good: Social Justice and the Politics of Shame
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"Shame! Shame! Shame!"
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Farewell, Esquire?
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On a layover in Toronto en route to Phoenix several weeks ago, I purchased the latest issue of Esquire magazine at a news shop before boarding my plane and shuffling past crowds of people in the mi…
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Minorities Don’t Always Want Your Help Being Heard
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Minorities are individuals, not tokens in the game of social justice. Promoting us on the grounds of our identity is belittling and discouraging.
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Rejected By the Tribe: What Political Extremists Reveal About the Rest of Us
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Persecution, or the perception thereof, is a powerful social glue.
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A Principled Defense of the University
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Despite some broken fields, the university is one of humanity's crowning achievements and it must not fall to the reactionary right.
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An Appeal to Male Feminists
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Feminist men, when you insist women are perpetual victims of a society which considers them incapable and inferior, you promote this. I do not appreciate it.
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger When Confronted with Inconvenient Ideas
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We need to focus on evidence and arguments, and on ordinary fairness and compassion to others, even when we disagree.
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The Reality of the Rise of an Intolerant and Radical Left on Campus
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The darkest part is not the rise of radicalism, but the passive acquiescence of the vast majority of faculty and students.
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The Death of a Celebrity
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I used to think it was vapid when people mourned the death of a celebrity. These days I’m in a little less hurry to judge.
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A Liberal Who Remembers
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Lefty friends keep asking me if — or telling me that — I’m a conservative now. But I’m just a liberal who remembers what they’ve forgotten. I remember what it meant to be a libera…
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Areo Magazine “Lefty friends keep asking me if — or telling me that — I’m a conservative now. But I’m just a liberal who remembers what they’ve forgotten.” 45d
The World Made Flat: The Logocentric Left and the Politics of Provocation
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Far leftist ideas critiqued as postmodernism can be more precisely understood as a new logocentrism; a reconceived relationship between language and the world.
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Why Utopian Communities Fail
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Once again we see a resurgence of interest in intentional communities and in Utopian experiments in living communally. Even Time Magazine is advocating such ways of living as a solution to the prob…
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