“It’s frightening to discover that he’s so normal. He has female co-workers who enjoy his company. He has a real, live girlfriend who loves him. They have no idea that he used to go online and traumatize women for fun.”…
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Nathan Heller: The Big Uneasy – The New Yorker
Wasn’t free self-expression the whole point of social progressivism? Wasn’t liberal academe a way for ideas, good and bad, to be subjected to enlightened reason? Generations of professors and students imagined the university to be a temple for productive challenge…
Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Noted & Quoted, Political Philosophy Tagged with: illiberalism, PC
Michael Warren: Progressivism’s Macroaggressions – WSJ
How did liberals become so hopelessly illiberal? In “The Closing of the Liberal Mind,” Kim R. Holmes suggests that “the loss of historical memory as to what liberalism was is actually a key to understanding what it is today.” Mr.…
Posted in Books, Noted & Quoted, Political Philosophy Tagged with: illiberalism, Liberalism, progressivism
David Marcus: How Anti-White Rhetoric Is Fueling White Nationalism – The Federalist
Treating people equally has given way to making all of us ambassadors for our race. This is a classic theme in critical race theory, that people of color carry a burden of representation that white people do not. But foisting…
Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fearful elite media can’t touch Donald Trump – Salon.com
The supreme irony of the Times’ vacuous coverage is that the early 1990s banquet-hall photograph of the unmarried Rowanne Brewer and Donald Trump illustrating it is the sexiest picture published in the mainstream media in years. Not since Melissa Forde’s…
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Mind-blowing video of space junk evolution since 1957 – Business Insider
“The only way to [solve this problem] is to bring back the larger objects,” NASA scientist Donald Kessler, who has led NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office for nearly 20 years, told The Huffington Post in 2013. But if we’re going to do anything…
Michael Nunez: Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News – Gizmodo
Several former curators said that as the trending news algorithm improved, there were fewer instances of stories being injected. They also said that the trending news process was constantly being changed, so there’s no way to know exactly how the…
How Local Churches Anger The God Of Government – The Federalist
Throughout the book, Leeman maintains that the consensus between Protestant and Enlightenment thought has produced a confusion that is now eroding the very religious liberty the American founders sought to protect. As the culture wars escalate, so does the possibility…
On My Grand Strategy on Grand Strategy (Interim Book Report or Tour of a Tour of Tours of Tours)
I am seeking a grand strategic overview of the grand strategic field such as it is, in clear but not simplistic statements susceptible to critical consideration and re-consideration – not total occupation of the literature and victory in detail down to every last sty and hollow. All the same, if I am reluctant to add to the reading list unnecessarily, I will remain grateful for recommendations on further very-essential reading.
Critchley and Webster: Hegel on Hamlet – spiked
‘But death lay from the beginning in the background of Hamlet’s mind. The sands of time do not content him. In his melancholy and weakness, his worry, his disgust at all the affairs of life, we sense from the start…