The humanities departments of America’s universities are dominated by a rigid ideology. Putting a label on this ideology is tricky, but it can be expressed as a complementary blend of political correctness, postmodernism, postcolonialism, Marxism, and intersectional identity politics. For the sake of convenience, I will refer to this blend of ideas as “progressive” ideology. […]
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Smugness and the Ryan Selfie
Speaker Paul Ryan should have known that his selfie with congressional interns would become a sensation as soon as it hit the internet.
A Case Against the Legalization of Drugs
Ultimately, drugs ought to not be legalized because they damage the fragile social fabric upon which the country (and the whole civilized world more generally) rests. They do untold damage to (predominantly) poor individuals, and further already rampant economic and social inequality.