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If we are to realize Zuckerberg´s idea of an internet that is “safe” from “harmful” content, we will have to choose which groups get to enjoy a digital safe space.
An even moderately careful reading of Lolita should make it quite clear that it’s anything but a “celebration” of child rape.
If sensitivity readers become a publishing institution, they will only incentivize more cautious, conservative, and ideologically homogenous books.
We’re not going to return to a worldview that acts as if society is identity-blind.
The ascendancy of technical reason and instrumentalization, Heidegger thought, generated highly inauthentic individuals who were unable to live meaningful lives.
Progressives do accept a genetically caused human nature; but, consistent with the claims of their critics, they accept this much less when it is ideologically inconvenient.
There are biological reasons that explain why the experience of being in love feels so overwhelming.
The administrators at St Edmund’s College who determined that Dr Noah Carl should be fired did not have qualifications in these areas, either.
Comedy, on the other hand, reminds us that we all have a dark side and that we might want to reconsider before casting stones.
There are some notable environmentalists who recognize the fact that humans are capable of creating abundance instead of scarcity.
The mixing of environmentalism and socialism may yet become a mortal threat to the current oligarchy. In the American plutocrat-funded Democratic Party, there is more support for socialism than for capitalism.
This will make the internet a much less free place to speak compared to Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park—the place which is supposed to represent Britain’s commitment to free speech.
The Gen Xer whose satirical works include “American Psycho” and “Less Than Zero” also grasps the true essence of Donald Trump and our times in a way that eludes commentators on the Left and Right.
Nothing is again simple, but everything is clear. This is the great lesson of empathy. We are all the bicycle thief.
I wasn’t saying that secular humanism is a religion. I was saying that in those aspects of religion which actually affect and seek to guide human behavior, secular humanism does not differ from religion.