Category: Culture
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How Wikipedia Smears Conservatives
Wikipedia continues to affirm its commitment to neutrality. This has become a running joke. Maybe the most persuasive way to show that Wikipedia is filled with bias is just to cite a lot […]
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People Who Need to Stop
Now with a bonus list of people who should not stop! People Who Should Not Stop
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On a Philosopher Defending Pedophilia
A series of short videos, all drawn from interviews with philosophy professor Stephen Kershnar of SUNY-Fredonia, has gone viral—because he has the shocking temerity (and I use that phrase totally unironically) to defend […]
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Not all ways of changing the world are good
Not all ways of changing the world are good. Some edges you don’t go over, ever. Some edgelords are the enemy. Some rebellion is shockingly evil. Sometimes, wearing the clothes of the devil […]
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Bold Predictions for the 2020s
Yeah, who knows what will really happen? But here are my predictions (i.e., wild guesses). UPDATED in May 2023 with the grim verdict: I am not a prophet.
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On the Burning of an LGBTQ Flag
Last summer, Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa, stole the LGBTQ pride flag hung above the entrance to the Ames United Church of Christ, and burned it in front of the nearby Dangerous […]
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A Theory of Evil
First posted Aug. 16, 2019. Revised and reposted Nov. 4. Good to read alongside “Why Be Moral.” For a long time, the nature of evil eluded me. But dark contemplation of the Jeffrey […]
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Why I haven’t read Lolita
I posted a Twitter poll recently, by way of unburdening myself of the following opinion about Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, the book about a middle aged man who has a love affair with a […]
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On the clash of civilizations
There is a global conflict underway. A good way to understand it is by looking at the different interests that are coming into conflict. And a good place to begin is, of course, […]
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The Antivitist Trend in the West
Recent events have suggested that there is a trend afoot in the West: that life is overrated and that death is not so bad. Call it, for lack of a better term, antivitism […]