A collection of 34 posts
Privilege is a sham mark of opprobrium—those who decry the privilege of others tend to want more of it for themselves. The dissemblance is all the more distasteful given that the detractors of privilege typically possess, comparatively speaking, an abundance of it. One need not be conversant in history
The confusion of having an elite, educated status with having information, facts, and knowledge should by now be familiar—it is a move that journalists have made repeatedly to capture a high-end market and then clothe that market-driven decision as a journalistic value.
Liberals have abandoned history, because they have to believe they are superior to both elites of the past and the contemporary working class, at the same time.
Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying.
The income gap between white and black women, meanwhile, is much narrower than the gap between their male counterparts.
There were a lot of Hispanic people there, which seems an underreported story.
What we need are policies—including trade and immigration policies—that help us carve up the economic pie in a way that sees all workers get their fair share, no matter what their ethnicity.
Contrary to expectations from the pervasive misogyny theory, across a variety of topics, samples, and research teams, recent findings in psychology suggest that such biases often favor women.
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
The chapter on Trans issues is particularly revealing in regard to the way the different “building blocks” of intersectional theory come into conflict with one another.
The rich kids at Gulliver, those who drove Range Rovers and boasted of extravagant vacations, were not black. But at Amherst, many of my new wealthy classmates were.
The behavior on display in that video didn’t originate in a place of reason, but rather the realm of spiritual passions.