“How alien this experience of total control is to our everyday existence in the chaotic, inexplicable universe. For just this reason, we fashion ideologies to live out our fantasies of control.”
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Category: The Center
Slavoj Žižek, Jordan Peterson, and Atheists Who Believe in God
“Peterson’s importance is his powerful and influential insistence that religion is not arbitrary or malevolent—that in every developed form we encounter it, religious stories are archetypal of the human condition in a way nothing else can or ever will be.”
The Cinnabon Made Me Do It: Surprising Influences on Moral Behavior
“These factors seem to have a demonstrable impact on our behavior, and yet are morally irrelevant in the sense that they should not matter to what a morally virtuous person would do. What should we make of results like these?”
The Racism Dialectic
“In the contemporary political landscape, racism seems to be an indefatigable issue. I have noticed that those who advocate anti-racism, ironically, have a tendency to fight fire with fire—that is, racism with racism.”
What Can Thucydides Teach Us About China’s Rise to Power?
“The problem with America as a maritime power in Asia is that, like the United Kingdom of yesteryear, the United States is not an Asian power.”
Norman Ornstein Joins Erich Prince: “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks”
“It’s harder to demonize somebody if your kids are playing on the soccer field together, and you’re out there on a weekend afternoon.”
Greg Lukianoff Joins Erich Prince: The Coddling of the American Mind
“On campuses so far, I have been pleasantly surprised that I have been invited to talks that have been well-received and civil.”
Editor’s Choice: The Best Political Speeches of the Past 55 Years
A few recent political speeches worthy of the history books.
Interview: Rick Ungar on His New Project “The Daily Centrist”
“My reputation is, ‘Every conservative’s favorite liberal.’ That’s because I don’t hate people because I disagree with them.”
Our Conversation With Berny Belvedere, Founder of Arc Digital
“People who read us will gain a better perspective overall of the issues that we produce. Why wouldn’t we want to be as influential as possible?“
When Debating the Border, Let’s Remember Gangs
“With well over one million gang members criminally operating in the United States…Terms like ‘occupation’ come to mind.”
“Feminism”: A War Against Women?
“I am a single college student with jobs but no set career. Unlike Newman, I cannot speak for anyone else, but I can say that I did not appreciate her representation of our sex.”
In Defense of Jordan Peterson’s Religious Beliefs
“However, [Peterson’s] general statements about God do, or would, find a home in Catholic and Orthodox theological dogma and tradition.”
Religion and the Left: A Reply to McManus
“The ideas of the Right are more powerful precisely because they are more primitive. Fraternity between differing religious, racial, and linguistic communities is of greater abstraction than fraternizing with one’s co-religionist and inter-linguistic community.”
What Is an Intellectual?
“What is it, then, that intellectuals should do? In order to answer this question, it is first necessary to return to a claim made earlier, namely that the telling of truth cannot be the responsibility of an intellectual because being an intellectual, in its very definition, is truth-telling.”