“…where Peterson is fond of citing the brutal nature of chimpanzees as proof of nature’s pitiless character, we should recall that the Left can just as easily cite the relatively co-operative nature of bonobos.”
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Critiquing the Intellectual Dark Web: Michael Brooks’ “Against the Web”
“Peterson comes across no better in Brooks’ telling. He acknowledges that much of the Canadian psychologist’s self-help is quite useful, and he even jokingly admits that many leftists could do with some tough love about cleaning their room.”
In Defense of My Work Critical of Jordan Peterson
“The irony of this exchange is it has only reinforced my opinion that Peterson’s political rhetoric often has a stultifying impact on sincere intellectual debates.“
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When We Imbue the Stock Market with Religious Properties
“These things seem all too familiar when thinking about a somewhat abstract entity with arguably outsized power over billions of people’s lives when—on a whim—it decides to violently go ‘up’ or ‘down.'”
The Misleading Claim that Bernie Sanders Is a “Hypocrite”
“Actually, Sanders status as a millionaire should calm and console those who believe that he thinks that all wealthy people are evil. His wealth should convince those people that he does believe in a free-market system.”
Nietzsche and Godless Post-Modernity
“All of this culminated in the works of Nietzsche, who rejected the ontological and moral truths of monotheism, while retaining their stress on individualism.”
Slavoj Žižek’s “End of Capitalism” and the Coronavirus
“Written in the aftermath of the Great Recession, Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? echoed the bleak skepticism of Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek, in arguing that it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism.”
Interview: Merion West Contributor Matt McManus on “Postmodern Conservatism”
“So, I finished my Ph.D. in 2017, and, at the time, Donald Trump had just been elected President of the United States. Like a lot of people, I was a bit perplexed and disturbed by what happened.”
The Critics of “Social Justice,” from Jonah Goldberg to Jordan Peterson
“The conservative critiques of social justice are, therefore, wrong on two different fronts.”
Hannah Arendt’s Concept of “Impotent Bigness”
“Impotent bigness uses empty violence to lash out against the vulnerable to compensate for its own utter inability to change the world in any meaningful way. “
Mexican Women Protest Gender Violence, But Is the Government Listening?
“I cannot fathom the extent of their pain, of course, but I know that if something were to happen to my mother or my friends, I would burn everything until justice were achieved.”
At the Border with Reality: the Coronavirus in Italy and Memes
“Italy, the first European country to close its links with China, also became the first nation in Europe in terms of the numbers infected. With this development came the tragic counterbalance of being transformed in one fell swoop from repellers to rejected.”
Why Millennials Are Angry
“Millennials occupy the rather strange position of being both an angry and apathetic generation.”
U.S. Inaction with Rohingya Genocide Echoes Past Sins
“More than 25 years after the Rwandan genocide, the United States’ current response—or lack thereof—to the state-sanctioned violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is chillingly similar.”
Slavoj Žižek, Viktor Orbán, and Understanding “Post-Truth”
“This does seem to be occurring in the academy, as the contemporary academic stars of critical theory such as Alain Badious and Slavoj Žižek tend to be hostile to the extreme skepticism of post-modern theory.”