For the last decade and a half, I’ve been teaching ethics to undergraduates. Now — admittedly, a little late to the party — I’ve started … Is Higher Education a Pyramid Scheme?Read more
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Morality, don’t make me laugh
‘The struggle of people against power,’ wrote Milan Kundera, ‘is the struggle of memory against forgetting.’ The idea that the Nato bombing has to do … Morality, don’t make me laughRead more
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The Forged Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
No historical figure has been as manipulated, distorted and used for nefarious and self-serving ends as egregiously as Jesus Christ. Jesus has been trotted out … The Forged Gospel of Jesus’s WifeRead more
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The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final Year
The anniversary of his assassination always brings a flood of tributes to Martin Luther King Jr., and this Sunday will surely be no exception. But … The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final YearRead more
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Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19
When trying to interpret, understand, and analyze the daily flow of news, I tend to locate what is happening against the background of two distinctive … Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19Read more
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Liberalism’s Last Legs?
By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, … Liberalism’s Last Legs?Read more
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“Nobody is Above the Law” – Except The “Big Boys”
Law schools should have courses on the expanding immunities of government and corporate officials from criminal prosecution and punishment. Guest lecturers, speaking from their experience, … “Nobody is Above the Law” – Except The “Big Boys”Read more
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The Inherent Problem with Prashant Kishor’s Methods
Opposition parties and leaders of all hues cosying up to election strategist Prashant Kishor reflects the growing sense among all non-BJP parties that the saffron … The Inherent Problem with Prashant Kishor’s MethodsRead more
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On the verge of repeating a voting rights blunder that led to the rise of Jim Crow
There comes a point in every awful horror movie where a character does something so careless and shortsighted a viewer loses faith in the storyteller. … On the verge of repeating a voting rights blunder that led to the rise of Jim CrowRead more
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Fallacies of Political Labelism
Alexander Burns is a leading political affairs analyst for the New York Times. Unfortunately, even he has accepted the ill-defined political labelism swallowed wholesale by … Fallacies of Political LabelismRead more