One turning point in the history of the university in the United States occurred about fifty years ago at Cornell (as later described by Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind). And over the years the situation at … Continue reading →
Anyone who says that members of a certain group always tell the truth is lying. There is no such group on earth. I don’t care if it’s a group of Catholic nuns or Buddhist monks. There are liars in every … Continue reading →
Now that I’ve been listening to Jordan Peterson, you’re probably going to see quite a few excerpts here from his talks. How does he get the ability to speak so fast and so long while hardly pausing for breath? This … Continue reading →
Betrand Russell was a socialist, but he wasn’t impressed by the Communists: I am compelled to reject Bolshevism for two reasons: First, because the price mankind must pay to achieve Communism by Bolshevik methods is too terrible; and secondly because, … Continue reading →
Our US Red Guard have certainly been busy.
Continue reading →I had somehow missed the fact that an extraordinary law called C-16 passed Canada’s Senate in mid-June of 2017 by overwhelming numbers, sliding the country further down the slippery slope of the tyranny of hate speech laws: Canada’s Senate passed … Continue reading →
I think this might be as good a time as any to spotlight this comment by commenter “Kyndyll G.” It was made in early July, and it’s a discussion of conservatism and its relation to tyranny: I would not presume … Continue reading →
A new survey about college students’ attitudes towards free speech has come out (1500 students were polled): While “hate speech” is odious, as long as it steers clear of well-established exceptions to the First Amendment…it is constitutionally protected. The survey … Continue reading →
Commenter “Montage” wrote on the recent de Blasio thread: I read the [de Blasio] interview for a more complete picture and context is important. The key is when he says: “hundreds of years of history that have ELEVATED property rights … Continue reading →
The young man in the following video tells his political change story, and in doing so he describes a process that I think—having contemplated the process of political change myself for about a decade and a half—is the heart of … Continue reading →
…says Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi’s faux pas immediately reminded me of this:
Continue reading →A NY Times op-ed by K-Sue Park that I critiqued recently called for the ACLU to “rethink” its free-speech defense of Nazi rallies, and to loosen its traditional even-handed defense of freedom of speech as a principle of liberty and … Continue reading →