Showing posts with label Postmodernism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Postmodernism. Show all posts
Monday, March 7, 2022

Herbert Marcuse and the Left's Endless Campaign Against Western 'Repression'

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This is from Benedict Beckeld, at Quillette (via Maggie's Farm ): The Frankfurt School of social theory began about a century ago, in t...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories

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At Amazon, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―an...
Friday, December 18, 2020

How Critical Race Training Is Harming Higher Education

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I attended this event. Really great stuff and crucial work they're doing. At Legal Insurrection, " VIDEO: Critical Race Training is...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

A Plea for a Humanist Antiracism

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 At Areo : If the astounding fact that Donald Trump received a greater share of non-white people’s votes in 2020 than any Republican preside...
Friday, November 27, 2020

'There is a fight to be waged against an intellectual matrix coming from American universities and intersectional theses that want to essentialize communities and identities, at the antipodes of the Republican model, which postulates the equality between human beings, independently of their characteristics of origin, sex, religion. It is the breeding ground for a fragmentation of societies that converges with the Islamic model...'

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One hundred French intellectuals have signed a letter backing the recent comments from French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer.   See...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and I...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Victims of Communism

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One can't be reminded enough of this historical abomination. At WND: NEW COLUMN: #Nazism , at about 25 million dead, turned out to be...
Monday, April 20, 2020

'The Haunted California Idyll of German Writers in Exile'

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This is amazing, at Althouse, quoting an article at the New Yorker , " 'Indeed, a number of exiles fell to scowling under the palms...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

ICYMI: Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

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[Re-upping this post as well, as Professor Scruton has passed away, a genuine loss for conservative philosophy, if not Western civilization....
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Jonathan Yaniv's Human Rights Case

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Jonathan Yaniv is the tranny "Jessica" Yaniv, and he's the one who's been able to get feminists kicked off Twitter, Lindse...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Age of Amnesia

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From Joel Kotkin, at Quillette : "In feudal times, classical heritage was replaced by rigid religious dogma. Today’s clerisy uses t...
Friday, July 19, 2019

The Revolution Transforming Our Society's Cultural Foundations

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It's really not just a "socialist revolution" transforming our country. It's a postmodern revolution, which includes doctr...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Cyber Weekend Sales

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At Amazon, Deals of the Day . And especially, Bounty Hunter TK4 Tracker IV Metal Detector . Also, Pelican 1650 Case With Foam (Black) . ...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Literary Theory's Stifling Uniformity

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From Neema Parvini, at Quillette, " The Stifling Uniformity of Literary Theory ": In 1976, the Nobel-prize winning economist, F....
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Professor Jordan B. Peterson Channel 4 Debate on Gender Equality (VIDEO)

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Well, I had to watch the whole thing, considering how this interview generated considerable controversy. I am surprised, relieved in a p...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Post-Christian America?

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Look, I think American War is practically non-fiction, so Ima say no. But check at NRO: Can America Survive as a Post-Christian Natio...
Friday, November 24, 2017

Marriage and Kids vs. Dogs and Netflix

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I'd like to see actually statistics on this, but if it's anywhere near majority opinion, we can be relieved that humans will die out...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Roots of the Current Campus Madness

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At great piece, from an unexpected source, Scientific American, " The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism ": Students ar...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Barry Rubin, Silent Revolution

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Barry Rubin, Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance .
Friday, June 23, 2017

Bruce Bawer, The Victims' Revolution

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Bruce Bawer, The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind .