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January 2025

January 10, 2025

Is Liberalism Coming to Its Senses?

I am astonished at the relatively mild reactions among progressives to Donald Trump's re-election and...

September 2022

September 19, 2022

Personal Virtue vs. Social Virtue

One of the many tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth develops a useful distinction between...

May 2022

May 17, 2022

The Rise of Conservative Comedy

Conservative comedy is on the rise, while liberal comedy is floundering. Even progressive scholars are...

October 2021

October 25, 2021

“The World Has Gone Mad”

Does it seem like the world has gone mad? Bari Weiss, the ex-New York Times...

August 2021

August 04, 2021

When Medical Schools Can’t Teach Biology

Woke culture is now going beyond the humanities and the social sciences to the hard...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

Why Leftwing Regimes–from North Korea to American Academia–Don’t Allow Freedom

We should not be surprised when campuses suppress freedom of speech and other civil liberties....

June 23, 2021

“Even North Korea Isn’t This Nuts”

Yeonmi Park escaped from the crushing oppression of North Korea, only to find the same...

March 2021

March 11, 2021

Where the Left and the Right Agree

In our time of political and cultural polarization, we should reflect on some current and...

March 09, 2021

Where Relativism Survives

Moral relativism has given way to a new absolutism, in which those who disagree with...

December 2020

December 08, 2020

Purity Tests

Many secularists are reverting to an insistence on purity, for themselves and others. Not moral...

October 2020

October 14, 2020

Not Relativism but “Myside Bias”

The reason we can't agree with or persuade each other is not relativism, irrationalism, or...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Rolling over Beethoven

Beethoven is being canceled, not for being racist or sexist but because classical music is...

September 24, 2020

And Now, Book Burning

Book burning is the iconic manifestation of totalitarianism, thought control, and the suppression of freedom. ...

July 2020

July 17, 2020

Progressives Canceling Each Other

Now liberals and progressives are also being canceled--censored, derided, fired--by their fellow liberals and progressives....

July 14, 2020

Canceling Science

Science, the realm that purports to be totally objective, must now conform to the dictates...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

Should We Change America’s Name? What Else Should Go?

When members of a culture turn against that culture--repudiating its symbols, values, and heritage--the culture...

February 2020

February 17, 2020

Diverse Editions Cancelled as “Literary Blackface”

Penguin Books and Barnes & Noble thought they were being racially sensitive with their "Diverse...

February 13, 2019

The First Woke Primary

The Democratic primary is being conducted in a new climate, that of identity politics, intersectionality,...

August 2018

August 02, 2018

The World Does Need More Cowboys

The University of Wyoming has put out an advertising initiative with the slogan "The World...

July 2018

July 13, 2018

Down the Memory Hole

Thinking about expunging politically-incorrect authors, censoring literary classics, and re-writing history made me think of...

April 2018

April 18, 2018

Being Moral vs. Moralizing

John Daniel Davidson makes a useful distinction between "being moral" and "moralizing." From his article...

August 2017

August 11, 2017

Latest developments

I'm going to experiment with some short form blogging for the weekend, calling your...

July 2017

July 20, 2017

The left’s “hamburger problem”

Go to lunch with a progressive and you may well be badgered about how your hamburger...

July 17, 2017

Discrimination in footnotes

Two geographers have written an academic article arguing that scholars should not cite research by so...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Quantum physics is oppressive

Quantum physics is oppressive, according to a feminist scholar, because it promotes "binary and absolute...

May 26, 2017

The new religiosity

An academic journal published an article by a scholar arguing that if there is "trangenderism,"...

May 10, 2017

We mustn’t call breastfeeding “natural”

An article in the medical journal Pediatrics says that it is “unethical” to describe breastfeeding...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Student suspended for disagreeing with Muslim professor

Muslims believe that Jesus was not really crucified. According to the Qur'an, That they said...

April 2016

April 04, 2016

Leftists go from frightening to frightened

When someone chalked "vote for Trump" messages on the sidewalk, students at Emory University protested, saying seeing...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Forbidding the use of “husband,” “wife,” “dad,” “mom”

A professor at the University of Florida is forbidding her students to use words like...