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Salman Rushdie: The Antithesis to Moral Cowardice
If the Horseshoe Fits: Illiberalism Across the Political Spectrum
“While far-right ideologues make no secret of their illiberalism, their counterparts on the Left tend to cloak theirs in the language of equality.”
What Whoopi Goldberg Got Wrong about the Holocaust—and Why It Matters
“Only days before Goldberg made her ill-informed comments, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) changed its definition of racism to ‘The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.'”
What Punk Rock Has Taught Me about the Radical Left
“The question, of course, is why an underground counterculture known for its outspoken, contrarian, and anti-authoritarian attitude would toe the woke party line, disavow empiricism, and do the bidding of elite ideologues rather than admit that the emperor is naked.”
How the “New Atheists” Deradicalized Me
“New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity…”
Understanding the Mind of a Rioter
“This tendency to equate nuanced thinking and nonviolence with a lack of political conviction is typical of radicals.”
Is Gen Z Really So Different?
“Coming of age in the 1990s, the state of the world seemed every bit as dire to me as it does to many ‘Zoomers.'”
Europe’s Descent into Wokeness
“In Austria, for example, police have shot a dozen people since 2008; none of them were black.”
Transgender Rites: How Trans Activism Manipulates Public Opinion
“The notion that gender identity is a matter of self-identification, separate from biological sex, not only flies in the face of science but also leads to circular reasoning.”
Casting Spells: The Enduring Allure of Leftist Mysticism
“In the case of leftist mysticism, the greatest obstacle to this transformation appears to be human nature, which, in part, explains the bloody reality of socialism and communism.”
Is the West “at War with Islam”?
“This becomes painfully clear when it is one’s own city that is being attacked. I had cycled through the neighborhood a mere 30 minutes before the attack commenced.”
How to Be a Non-Racist
“Non-racism, thus understood, implies colorblindness, not in the sense of literally not seeing skin color, but in the sense of treating it as insignificant.”
When Identity Politics Meets the Punk Scene
“But to me, an observer with intimate knowledge of punk’s radical history, much of today’s woke rhetoric feels like a throwback.”
Blackface: When Nuance Meets Taboo
“One of the first lessons my students of undergraduate literary studies learn about text analysis is to distinguish between internal and external communication.”
No, Antifa Is Not Synonymous with “Anti-fascism”
“So, in the same way that a country with the word ‘democratic’ in its name tends to be anything but, Antifa appears overwhelmingly to be anti-fascist in name only.”
