Tag: Virtue

  • Everyone Is Allowed To Protest

    Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins exposed his students to possible criticism of the Israeli military, and was, for that reason, declared by his employer guilty of discrimination and harassment. Robbins could have written a book on the absurdities involved in defining criticism of genocide as discrimination, and defining criticism of any military on Earth other […]

  • Solitary Confinement

    Solitary Confinement

    At least as one response to the perceived failures of the French Revolution, some of what became the Romantic movements in the 19th century turned away from social interaction, especially collective activity, and toward individual isolation. Such a reaction was not peculiar to this period. In fact, withdrawal from social contact was an established niche […]

  • Nikole Hannah-Jones, Frederick Douglass, and the Left

    Twitter conversations with public intellectuals are rarely worthy of note, but a recent exchange I had with Nikole Hannah-Jones, famed mastermind of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, was symptomatic of widespread tendencies in left-liberal culture and brought up important issues. Hannah-Jones is a spokeswoman for wokeness, the cultural phenomenon that, as I’ve written elsewhere, […]

  • Converting to Christianity, Islam: Does It Prove Anything?

    Converting to Christianity, Islam: Does It Prove Anything?

    Religious conversions later in life are generally greeted as evidence that something terrible must have happened to the converter. The Onion published a satire in 2016, ridiculing Paul D’Amatol, who took up a life of Christian piety in late middle age. It must be ‘drugs or maybe he killed someone in a car accident. Something […]

  • Making Choices

    Making Choices

    The purpose of this article is to explore the making of choices, a subject that is not nearly as simple or commonplace as it may seem. Choice and Power, You, My Liberty Quotient and the Corpocracy’s Power Elite Choice and Power. To state the obvious, more powerful people can make and have implemented monumental choices […]

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