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STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by REVIEW: MICHAEL SHNAYERSON’S “BUGSY SIEGEL” Michael Shnayerson set out to write a book to keep the memory of Bugsy Siegel alive, filled with all the horror, evil, glam, and vision that has defined Bugsy Siegel ever since his death in 1947. Bugsy Siegel is much more than a book just about Bugsy. It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of IN REPLY TO TIM WISE: AMERICA'S PAST ON RACE SHOULD NOT BE (Jon Chase) “ The toxic consequences of drawing a crude line between America’s past and the state of our modern institutions cannot be understated.” I n a blog post this past summer on Medium, progressive activist Tim Wise compared the supposedly self-evident existence of systemic racism in the United States to Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion, which asserts that “every object will WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON “This is why Peterson genuinely believes in Dostoevsky’s eminent saying in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Without God all things are permitted.'”. I t has now been just over two years since the first, now-renowned debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson, having taken place on June 23, 2018. At the time, I was only vaguely aware of Sam Harris and was not overly familiar with his HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by REVIEW: MICHAEL SHNAYERSON’S “BUGSY SIEGEL” Michael Shnayerson set out to write a book to keep the memory of Bugsy Siegel alive, filled with all the horror, evil, glam, and vision that has defined Bugsy Siegel ever since his death in 1947. Bugsy Siegel is much more than a book just about Bugsy. It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of IN REPLY TO TIM WISE: AMERICA'S PAST ON RACE SHOULD NOT BE (Jon Chase) “ The toxic consequences of drawing a crude line between America’s past and the state of our modern institutions cannot be understated.” I n a blog post this past summer on Medium, progressive activist Tim Wise compared the supposedly self-evident existence of systemic racism in the United States to Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion, which asserts that “every object will WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON “This is why Peterson genuinely believes in Dostoevsky’s eminent saying in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Without God all things are permitted.'”. I t has now been just over two years since the first, now-renowned debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson, having taken place on June 23, 2018. At the time, I was only vaguely aware of Sam Harris and was not overly familiar with his THE TWO-FACES OF CLASSICAL MUSIC: THE BUREAUCRATIC TYRANNY Justin Hall. 05/18/2021. (Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music) “The reasoning has nothing whatsoever to do with functionality; indeed, it has nothing whatsoever to do with viruses or health safety. The reasoning is about symbolizing conformity to bureaucratic rule.”. T his month at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), twostudents
PENN’S IMPRISONED BLACK "GUINEA PIGS" DESERVE AN APOLOGY “Upon my father’s return, I was shocked by the change in his appearance. His arms and back were a series of scars and discolored blotches.” M y father, Leodus Jones, was a businessman, community activist, and leader in the prison reform movement in Philadelphia. He was also a human guinea pig who endured both mental and physical assaults at the hands of a prominent dermatologist THE CORONAVIRUS AND MODERN MALTHUSIANS For these conspiracy theorists, the sole purpose of these wicked acts is simply to reduce the size of world population, and coronavirus might just be one more ploy in this endeavor. These conspiracy theories ultimately go back to Thomas Robert Malthus’ influential 1798 work An Essay on the Principle of Population. REVIEW: STEPHAN HAGGARD AND ROBERT KAUFMAN'S "BACKSLIDING Haggard and Kaufman’s arguments in Backsliding are straightforward: First, political polarization and dysfunction undermine support for mainstream or centrist political candidates, and they open the door for autocratic electoral appeals. Second, elected self-styled autocrats initiate a “collapse in the separation of powers betweenbranches
IN REPLY TO TIM WISE: AMERICA'S PAST ON RACE SHOULD NOT BE (Jon Chase) “ The toxic consequences of drawing a crude line between America’s past and the state of our modern institutions cannot be understated.” I n a blog post this past summer on Medium, progressive activist Tim Wise compared the supposedly self-evident existence of systemic racism in the United States to Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion, which asserts that “every object will THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH MARXISM The Labor Theory of Value. Let’s start with two central Marxian concepts: exploitation and surplus value. Marx saw the latter as a distillation of the former, an “increment or excess over the original value” invested in production, as described in Das Kapital. That increment was assumed to be a GEORGE W. BUSH’S "OUT OF MANY, ONE": A MESSAGE OF There are various ways through which the native born can overcome our in-born gratitude deficit. Learning our nation’s messy, complex, tragic, and beautiful history is key, and so is engaging with stories like those that populate Out of Many, One —stories that remind us how lucky we all are to call ourselves Americans.. President Bush tells the stories of just about every type of immigrant HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON Sam Harris: Facts and Values. In Peterson’s opinion, the “new atheists,” such as Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins, take our moral rules for granted and do not give credit to the transcendent forces that— for Peterson —gave rise to these ethical systems. Peterson, of course, argues that without the mythological narratives he describes, our ethics (which are, in part WHAT "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" HAS TO SAY ABOUT JUSTICE Here, the Merchant of Venice undeniably shines as the struggle for love—specifically between Portia and Bassanio—is threatened by the turbulence of misfortune, revenge, and the legalities of justice. But love, in this play, is secondary to the thematic deconstruction of the strict legality of justice. Shakespeare, thus, is exploring the A CRITIQUE OF JORDAN PETERSON Peterson’s second book, 12 Rules for Life, draws on this theoretical framework but updates it with more humanizing case studies drawn from Peterson’s private life, his work as a professional psychologist in Toronto, and from public history.The book is mainly designed as a self-help manual, albeit one that draws on the wide range of theoretical interests initially presented in Maps of Meaning. HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
REVIEW: JOHN BOEHNER’S “ON THE HOUSE” The roots of Boehner’s more dour, pessimistic takes in On the House are in the rise of the “political terrorists.”. Whether it is “The Squad” on the Left or the Freedom Caucus-turned-MAGA base on the Right, Boehner detests those in Congress “peddling chaos and crisis so that everyone keeps paying attention to them.”. GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice REVIEW: MICHAEL SHNAYERSON’S “BUGSY SIEGEL” Michael Shnayerson set out to write a book to keep the memory of Bugsy Siegel alive, filled with all the horror, evil, glam, and vision that has defined Bugsy Siegel ever since his death in 1947. Bugsy Siegel is much more than a book just about Bugsy. It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH MARXISM The Labor Theory of Value. Let’s start with two central Marxian concepts: exploitation and surplus value. Marx saw the latter as a distillation of the former, an “increment or excess over the original value” invested in production, as described in Das Kapital. That increment was assumed to be a REVIEW: JAN SWAFFORD'S "MOZART: THE REIGN OF LOVE Mozart: The Reign of Love is more than just a biography of the world’s greatest composer. It is an intimate dive into the Mozart family: Papa Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), Mama Anna Maria (1720-1778), sister Nannerl (1751-1829), and Mozart himself. It is also a kaleidoscope through the turbulence and optimism of late EnlightenmentEurope
A CRITIQUE OF JORDAN PETERSON Peterson’s second book, 12 Rules for Life, draws on this theoretical framework but updates it with more humanizing case studies drawn from Peterson’s private life, his work as a professional psychologist in Toronto, and from public history.The book is mainly designed as a self-help manual, albeit one that draws on the wide range of theoretical interests initially presented in Maps of Meaning. HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
REVIEW: JOHN BOEHNER’S “ON THE HOUSE” The roots of Boehner’s more dour, pessimistic takes in On the House are in the rise of the “political terrorists.”. Whether it is “The Squad” on the Left or the Freedom Caucus-turned-MAGA base on the Right, Boehner detests those in Congress “peddling chaos and crisis so that everyone keeps paying attention to them.”. GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice REVIEW: MICHAEL SHNAYERSON’S “BUGSY SIEGEL” Michael Shnayerson set out to write a book to keep the memory of Bugsy Siegel alive, filled with all the horror, evil, glam, and vision that has defined Bugsy Siegel ever since his death in 1947. Bugsy Siegel is much more than a book just about Bugsy. It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH MARXISM The Labor Theory of Value. Let’s start with two central Marxian concepts: exploitation and surplus value. Marx saw the latter as a distillation of the former, an “increment or excess over the original value” invested in production, as described in Das Kapital. That increment was assumed to be a REVIEW: JAN SWAFFORD'S "MOZART: THE REIGN OF LOVE Mozart: The Reign of Love is more than just a biography of the world’s greatest composer. It is an intimate dive into the Mozart family: Papa Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), Mama Anna Maria (1720-1778), sister Nannerl (1751-1829), and Mozart himself. It is also a kaleidoscope through the turbulence and optimism of late EnlightenmentEurope
A CRITIQUE OF JORDAN PETERSON Peterson’s second book, 12 Rules for Life, draws on this theoretical framework but updates it with more humanizing case studies drawn from Peterson’s private life, his work as a professional psychologist in Toronto, and from public history.The book is mainly designed as a self-help manual, albeit one that draws on the wide range of theoretical interests initially presented in Maps of Meaning. TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA “To these people, lockdown has been a raging success. To everybody else, it has been an unmitigated disaster.” O n April 24 th, London saw what was probably one of the largest civil rights marches in recent memory as anti-lockdown protestors gathered under the banner, Unite For Freedom.I say “probably” because I have seen reports estimating the attendance anywhere between “several STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
THE CORONAVIRUS AND MODERN MALTHUSIANS For these conspiracy theorists, the sole purpose of these wicked acts is simply to reduce the size of world population, and coronavirus might just be one more ploy in this endeavor. These conspiracy theories ultimately go back to Thomas Robert Malthus’ influential 1798 work An Essay on the Principle of Population. REVIEW: MICHAEL SHNAYERSON’S “BUGSY SIEGEL” Michael Shnayerson set out to write a book to keep the memory of Bugsy Siegel alive, filled with all the horror, evil, glam, and vision that has defined Bugsy Siegel ever since his death in 1947. Bugsy Siegel is much more than a book just about Bugsy. It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of WHAT "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" HAS TO SAY ABOUT JUSTICE Here, the Merchant of Venice undeniably shines as the struggle for love—specifically between Portia and Bassanio—is threatened by the turbulence of misfortune, revenge, and the legalities of justice. But love, in this play, is secondary to the thematic deconstruction of the strict legality of justice. Shakespeare, thus, is exploring the WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON “This is why Peterson genuinely believes in Dostoevsky’s eminent saying in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Without God all things are permitted.'”. I t has now been just over two years since the first, now-renowned debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson, having taken place on June 23, 2018. At the time, I was only vaguely aware of Sam Harris and was not overly familiar with hisMERIONWEST.COM
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ROBIN DIANGELO'S WHITE FRAGILITY THEORY FALLS PREY TO As stated by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, who was recently described as “perhaps the country’s most visible expert in anti-bias training,” white people have been “ ocialized” to live with “a deeply internalized sense of superiority and entitlement” without being aware of it. DiAngelo, who coined the term white fragility and is the THREE LESSONS FROM THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE, 25 YEARS LATER The third lesson we can gather from the Rwandan genocide has to do with the limits of sovereignty. Ever since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, Western nations have come to embrace the principle of sovereignty: no nation shall interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. Given the nasty history of some nations interfering inother
HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice REVIEW: MICHAEL SHNAYERSON’S “BUGSY SIEGEL” Michael Shnayerson set out to write a book to keep the memory of Bugsy Siegel alive, filled with all the horror, evil, glam, and vision that has defined Bugsy Siegel ever since his death in 1947. Bugsy Siegel is much more than a book just about Bugsy. It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of IN REPLY TO TIM WISE: AMERICA'S PAST ON RACE SHOULD NOT BE 11/28/2020. (Jon Chase) “ The toxic consequences of drawing a crude line between America’s past and the state of our modern institutions cannot be understated.”. I n a blog post this past summer on Medium, progressive activist Tim Wise compared the supposedly self-evident existence of systemic racism in the United States to Isaac Newton WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON Sam Harris: Facts and Values. In Peterson’s opinion, the “new atheists,” such as Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins, take our moral rules for granted and do not give credit to the transcendent forces that— for Peterson —gave rise to these ethical systems. Peterson, of course, argues that without the mythological narratives he describes, our ethics (which are, in part HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice REVIEW: MICHAEL SHNAYERSON’S “BUGSY SIEGEL” Michael Shnayerson set out to write a book to keep the memory of Bugsy Siegel alive, filled with all the horror, evil, glam, and vision that has defined Bugsy Siegel ever since his death in 1947. Bugsy Siegel is much more than a book just about Bugsy. It is a short and gripping panorama of life in 1920s-1940s America, that defining epoch of IN REPLY TO TIM WISE: AMERICA'S PAST ON RACE SHOULD NOT BE 11/28/2020. (Jon Chase) “ The toxic consequences of drawing a crude line between America’s past and the state of our modern institutions cannot be understated.”. I n a blog post this past summer on Medium, progressive activist Tim Wise compared the supposedly self-evident existence of systemic racism in the United States to Isaac Newton WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON Sam Harris: Facts and Values. In Peterson’s opinion, the “new atheists,” such as Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins, take our moral rules for granted and do not give credit to the transcendent forces that— for Peterson —gave rise to these ethical systems. Peterson, of course, argues that without the mythological narratives he describes, our ethics (which are, in part REVIEW: JOHN BOEHNER’S “ON THE HOUSE” The roots of Boehner’s more dour, pessimistic takes in On the House are in the rise of the “political terrorists.”. Whether it is “The Squad” on the Left or the Freedom Caucus-turned-MAGA base on the Right, Boehner detests those in Congress “peddling chaos and crisis so that everyone keeps paying attention to them.”. LESSONS FROM LABOUR’S 2021 ELECTION DEFEAT 05/08/2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) “ It is a crushing defeat that signals that Labour’s loss of several of its Northern constituencies under former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in the 2019 general election was not a one-off occurrence that could be fixed with a new leader.”. O n Friday morning, we awoke to find that WHAT "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" HAS TO SAY ABOUT JUSTICE Here, the Merchant of Venice undeniably shines as the struggle for love—specifically between Portia and Bassanio—is threatened by the turbulence of misfortune, revenge, and the legalities of justice. But love, in this play, is secondary to the thematic deconstruction of the strict legality of justice. Shakespeare, thus, is exploring the WHEN THEY SAY ABORTION AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ARE ONE AND Erich J. Prince. Erich J. Prince is the editor of Merion West. Erich has contributed to a variety of publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Hartford Courant, The News & Observer, the Orlando Sentinel, and The Hill. He studied political science at Yale, completing his thesis on polarization in the United States Congress.03/31/2021.
GEORGE W. BUSH’S "OUT OF MANY, ONE": A MESSAGE OF There are various ways through which the native born can overcome our in-born gratitude deficit. Learning our nation’s messy, complex, tragic, and beautiful history is key, and so is engaging with stories like those that populate Out of Many, One —stories that remind us how lucky we all are to call ourselves Americans.. President Bush tells the stories of just about every type of immigrant THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH MARXISM The Labor Theory of Value. Let’s start with two central Marxian concepts: exploitation and surplus value. Marx saw the latter as a distillation of the former, an “increment or excess over the original value” invested in production, as described in Das Kapital. That increment was assumed to be a HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON Sam Harris: Facts and Values. In Peterson’s opinion, the “new atheists,” such as Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins, take our moral rules for granted and do not give credit to the transcendent forces that— for Peterson —gave rise to these ethical systems. Peterson, of course, argues that without the mythological narratives he describes, our ethics (which are, in part JAMES LINDSAY: HOW CRITICAL STUDIES LED TO TODAY'S TURMOIL Image via New Discourses “This is an attempt at a social, cultural, and political revolution.” O n July 9th, Kevin Turner had a conversation with Dr. James Lindsay discussing the social and cultural movement that has gripped the nation since the death of George Floyd in late May. An author and mathematician by training, Dr. Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects WHY KARL MARX IS WRONG (visitrhodeisland.com) “ Running a profitable enterprise is not the same thing as Smaug guarding a pile of gold.” O ne of the more regrettable developments in recent years is a resurgence of interest in the ideas of Karl Marx. For example, Matt McManus published an article earlier this year at Quillette about “Why We Should Read Marx.” More recently, Ben Burgis published an article at ROBIN DIANGELO'S WHITE FRAGILITY THEORY FALLS PREY TO As stated by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, who was recently described as “perhaps the country’s most visible expert in anti-bias training,” white people have been “ ocialized” to live with “a deeply internalized sense of superiority and entitlement” without being aware of it. DiAngelo, who coined the term white fragility and is the HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by REVIEW: JOHN BOEHNER’S “ON THE HOUSE” The roots of Boehner’s more dour, pessimistic takes in On the House are in the rise of the “political terrorists.”. Whether it is “The Squad” on the Left or the Freedom Caucus-turned-MAGA base on the Right, Boehner detests those in Congress “peddling chaos and crisis so that everyone keeps paying attention to them.”. REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice STANDING BY OUR CRITICISMS OF JORDAN PETERSON Standing By Our Criticisms of Jordan Peterson. “ If Peterson manages to dispense good advice in spite of muddled philosophical and political reasoning, this attests to his psychological acuity. But it is does not magically redeem his intellectual output.”. W e appreciated much in Tony D. Senatore’s article for Merion West,“The Best
WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let IS THE APOSTLE PAUL RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY? And, had Paul never appeared on the scene, Jesus’ movement would have continued as a little sect obsessed with the end of the world and with neurotically keeping hundreds of ritual commandments, for as Jesus so rigidly say, not one iota of the Jewish Law would pass. In fact, in those aspects that are relevant for the 21st Century, Jesuswas
HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by REVIEW: JOHN BOEHNER’S “ON THE HOUSE” The roots of Boehner’s more dour, pessimistic takes in On the House are in the rise of the “political terrorists.”. Whether it is “The Squad” on the Left or the Freedom Caucus-turned-MAGA base on the Right, Boehner detests those in Congress “peddling chaos and crisis so that everyone keeps paying attention to them.”. REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice STANDING BY OUR CRITICISMS OF JORDAN PETERSON Standing By Our Criticisms of Jordan Peterson. “ If Peterson manages to dispense good advice in spite of muddled philosophical and political reasoning, this attests to his psychological acuity. But it is does not magically redeem his intellectual output.”. W e appreciated much in Tony D. Senatore’s article for Merion West,“The Best
WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let IS THE APOSTLE PAUL RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY? And, had Paul never appeared on the scene, Jesus’ movement would have continued as a little sect obsessed with the end of the world and with neurotically keeping hundreds of ritual commandments, for as Jesus so rigidly say, not one iota of the Jewish Law would pass. In fact, in those aspects that are relevant for the 21st Century, Jesuswas
TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA “To these people, lockdown has been a raging success. To everybody else, it has been an unmitigated disaster.” O n April 24 th, London saw what was probably one of the largest civil rights marches in recent memory as anti-lockdown protestors gathered under the banner, Unite For Freedom.I say “probably” because I have seen reports estimating the attendance anywhere between “several LESSONS FROM LABOUR’S 2021 ELECTION DEFEAT 05/08/2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) “ It is a crushing defeat that signals that Labour’s loss of several of its Northern constituencies under former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in the 2019 general election was not a one-off occurrence that could be fixed with a new leader.”. O n Friday morning, we awoke to find that IN REPLY TO TIM WISE: AMERICA'S PAST ON RACE SHOULD NOT BE (Jon Chase) “ The toxic consequences of drawing a crude line between America’s past and the state of our modern institutions cannot be understated.” I n a blog post this past summer on Medium, progressive activist Tim Wise compared the supposedly self-evident existence of systemic racism in the United States to Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion, which asserts that “every object will WHAT "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" HAS TO SAY ABOUT JUSTICE Here, the Merchant of Venice undeniably shines as the struggle for love—specifically between Portia and Bassanio—is threatened by the turbulence of misfortune, revenge, and the legalities of justice. But love, in this play, is secondary to the thematic deconstruction of the strict legality of justice. Shakespeare, thus, is exploring the THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH MARXISM The Many Problems with Marxism. Gerfried Ambrosch. 04/15/2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences. After hours of discussion, he admitted, ‘Well, ultimately, it’s a question of faith.'”. WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON Sam Harris: Facts and Values. In Peterson’s opinion, the “new atheists,” such as Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins, take our moral rules for granted and do not give credit to the transcendent forces that— for Peterson —gave rise to these ethical systems. Peterson, of course, argues that without the mythological narratives he describes, our ethics (which are, in partMERIONWEST.COM
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ROBIN DIANGELO'S WHITE FRAGILITY THEORY FALLS PREY TO As stated by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, who was recently described as “perhaps the country’s most visible expert in anti-bias training,” white people have been “ ocialized” to live with “a deeply internalized sense of superiority and entitlement” without being aware of it. DiAngelo, who coined the term white fragility and is the THE MYTH OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM Institutional racism is best defined as racism perpetrated by government entities. However, since most people, including people on the left, acknowledge that there is no law or government entity explicitly discriminating minorities in modern America, the definition of “institutional” or “systemic” racism has shifted over time. HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice STANDING BY OUR CRITICISMS OF JORDAN PETERSON Standing By Our Criticisms of Jordan Peterson. “ If Peterson manages to dispense good advice in spite of muddled philosophical and political reasoning, this attests to his psychological acuity. But it is does not magically redeem his intellectual output.”. W e appreciated much in Tony D. Senatore’s article for Merion West,“The Best
HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON “This is why Peterson genuinely believes in Dostoevsky’s eminent saying in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Without God all things are permitted.'”. I t has now been just over two years since the first, now-renowned debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson, having taken place on June 23, 2018. At the time, I was only vaguely aware of Sam Harris and was not overly familiar with his WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let THE REAL TRUTH OF RUBIN “HURRICANE” CARTER Book: Media Meddlers: The Real Truth About the Case Against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Authors: Vincent J. DeSimone and James V. DeSimone. Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing. Year: 2019. T here are few homicide cases that engender as much controversy and divisiveness as that of the late Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and his friend, JohnArtis.
ROBIN DIANGELO'S WHITE FRAGILITY THEORY FALLS PREY TOROBIN DIANGELO CRITICSROBIN DIANGELO JEWISH As stated by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, who was recently described as “perhaps the country’s most visible expert in anti-bias training,” white people have been “ ocialized” to live with “a deeply internalized sense of superiority and entitlement” without being aware of it. DiAngelo, who coined the term white fragility and is the IS THE APOSTLE PAUL RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY? And, had Paul never appeared on the scene, Jesus’ movement would have continued as a little sect obsessed with the end of the world and with neurotically keeping hundreds of ritual commandments, for as Jesus so rigidly say, not one iota of the Jewish Law would pass. In fact, in those aspects that are relevant for the 21st Century, Jesuswas
THE MYTH OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM Institutional racism is best defined as racism perpetrated by government entities. However, since most people, including people on the left, acknowledge that there is no law or government entity explicitly discriminating minorities in modern America, the definition of “institutional” or “systemic” racism has shifted over time. HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice STANDING BY OUR CRITICISMS OF JORDAN PETERSON Standing By Our Criticisms of Jordan Peterson. “ If Peterson manages to dispense good advice in spite of muddled philosophical and political reasoning, this attests to his psychological acuity. But it is does not magically redeem his intellectual output.”. W e appreciated much in Tony D. Senatore’s article for Merion West,“The Best
HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON “This is why Peterson genuinely believes in Dostoevsky’s eminent saying in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Without God all things are permitted.'”. I t has now been just over two years since the first, now-renowned debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson, having taken place on June 23, 2018. At the time, I was only vaguely aware of Sam Harris and was not overly familiar with his WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let THE REAL TRUTH OF RUBIN “HURRICANE” CARTER Book: Media Meddlers: The Real Truth About the Case Against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Authors: Vincent J. DeSimone and James V. DeSimone. Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing. Year: 2019. T here are few homicide cases that engender as much controversy and divisiveness as that of the late Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and his friend, JohnArtis.
ROBIN DIANGELO'S WHITE FRAGILITY THEORY FALLS PREY TOROBIN DIANGELO CRITICSROBIN DIANGELO JEWISH As stated by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, who was recently described as “perhaps the country’s most visible expert in anti-bias training,” white people have been “ ocialized” to live with “a deeply internalized sense of superiority and entitlement” without being aware of it. DiAngelo, who coined the term white fragility and is the IS THE APOSTLE PAUL RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY? And, had Paul never appeared on the scene, Jesus’ movement would have continued as a little sect obsessed with the end of the world and with neurotically keeping hundreds of ritual commandments, for as Jesus so rigidly say, not one iota of the Jewish Law would pass. In fact, in those aspects that are relevant for the 21st Century, Jesuswas
THE MYTH OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM Institutional racism is best defined as racism perpetrated by government entities. However, since most people, including people on the left, acknowledge that there is no law or government entity explicitly discriminating minorities in modern America, the definition of “institutional” or “systemic” racism has shifted over time. STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
REVIEW: JOHN BOEHNER’S “ON THE HOUSE” The roots of Boehner’s more dour, pessimistic takes in On the House are in the rise of the “political terrorists.”. Whether it is “The Squad” on the Left or the Freedom Caucus-turned-MAGA base on the Right, Boehner detests those in Congress “peddling chaos and crisis so that everyone keeps paying attention to them.”. GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH MARXISM The Many Problems with Marxism. Gerfried Ambrosch. 04/15/2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences. After hours of discussion, he admitted, ‘Well, ultimately, it’s a question of faith.'”. HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON Sam Harris: Facts and Values. In Peterson’s opinion, the “new atheists,” such as Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins, take our moral rules for granted and do not give credit to the transcendent forces that— for Peterson —gave rise to these ethical systems. Peterson, of course, argues that without the mythological narratives he describes, our ethics (which are, in part JORDAN PETERSON BIOGRAPHER ON WHY PEOPLE HATE HIM SO MUCH For instance, those who fear or are disgusted by the Soviet death camps hate Joseph Stalin, who created them. It’s personal. So when Peterson exposes the Stalinist mindset of today’s popular “woke” culture, it evokes a deeply hateful reaction. The fact that he will not back down or even soften his accusations escalates the hatred ofthe
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HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice STANDING BY OUR CRITICISMS OF JORDAN PETERSON Standing By Our Criticisms of Jordan Peterson. “ If Peterson manages to dispense good advice in spite of muddled philosophical and political reasoning, this attests to his psychological acuity. But it is does not magically redeem his intellectual output.”. W e appreciated much in Tony D. Senatore’s article for Merion West,“The Best
HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON “This is why Peterson genuinely believes in Dostoevsky’s eminent saying in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Without God all things are permitted.'”. I t has now been just over two years since the first, now-renowned debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson, having taken place on June 23, 2018. At the time, I was only vaguely aware of Sam Harris and was not overly familiar with his WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let THE REAL TRUTH OF RUBIN “HURRICANE” CARTER Book: Media Meddlers: The Real Truth About the Case Against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Authors: Vincent J. DeSimone and James V. DeSimone. Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing. Year: 2019. T here are few homicide cases that engender as much controversy and divisiveness as that of the late Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and his friend, JohnArtis.
ROBIN DIANGELO'S WHITE FRAGILITY THEORY FALLS PREY TOROBIN DIANGELO CRITICSROBIN DIANGELO JEWISH As stated by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, who was recently described as “perhaps the country’s most visible expert in anti-bias training,” white people have been “ ocialized” to live with “a deeply internalized sense of superiority and entitlement” without being aware of it. DiAngelo, who coined the term white fragility and is the IS THE APOSTLE PAUL RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY? And, had Paul never appeared on the scene, Jesus’ movement would have continued as a little sect obsessed with the end of the world and with neurotically keeping hundreds of ritual commandments, for as Jesus so rigidly say, not one iota of the Jewish Law would pass. In fact, in those aspects that are relevant for the 21st Century, Jesuswas
THE MYTH OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM Institutional racism is best defined as racism perpetrated by government entities. However, since most people, including people on the left, acknowledge that there is no law or government entity explicitly discriminating minorities in modern America, the definition of “institutional” or “systemic” racism has shifted over time. HOME | MERION WESTTHE LEFTCENTERTHE RIGHTABOUTOP-EDESSAYS Vahaken Mouradian. Help us improve the state of public discourse. Become a benefactor of Merion West. “New Atheism had taught me always to demand evidence; and the evidence revealed that, historically, political radicalism had been a major source of violence and inhumanity”. Gerfried Ambrosch 5/15/2021. IS INFLATION FINALLY GOING TO BE A PROBLEM? “Finally, the mere expectation of inflation can actually bring it to pass.” Editor’s note: This piece can be read as a companion to the author’s April 5th column “Is the National Debt Finally Going to Be a Problem?”. D uring their latest trips to the grocery store, gas station, or home improvement store, Americans have noticed that they are paying more than they were not long ago. REVIEW: HELEN PLUCKROSE AND JAMES LINDSAY'S "CYNICAL The volume is an outstanding critical guide to several decades of Theory as well as postmodernism and what the authors call “Social Justice scholarship and thought.”. The book’s structuring and more sweeping chapters deal with a) postmodernism in its purest form (Chapter 1), b) the separate types of Theory, including Social Justice STANDING BY OUR CRITICISMS OF JORDAN PETERSON Standing By Our Criticisms of Jordan Peterson. “ If Peterson manages to dispense good advice in spite of muddled philosophical and political reasoning, this attests to his psychological acuity. But it is does not magically redeem his intellectual output.”. W e appreciated much in Tony D. Senatore’s article for Merion West,“The Best
HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON “This is why Peterson genuinely believes in Dostoevsky’s eminent saying in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Without God all things are permitted.'”. I t has now been just over two years since the first, now-renowned debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson, having taken place on June 23, 2018. At the time, I was only vaguely aware of Sam Harris and was not overly familiar with his WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let THE REAL TRUTH OF RUBIN “HURRICANE” CARTER Book: Media Meddlers: The Real Truth About the Case Against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Authors: Vincent J. DeSimone and James V. DeSimone. Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing. Year: 2019. T here are few homicide cases that engender as much controversy and divisiveness as that of the late Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and his friend, JohnArtis.
ROBIN DIANGELO'S WHITE FRAGILITY THEORY FALLS PREY TOROBIN DIANGELO CRITICSROBIN DIANGELO JEWISH As stated by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, who was recently described as “perhaps the country’s most visible expert in anti-bias training,” white people have been “ ocialized” to live with “a deeply internalized sense of superiority and entitlement” without being aware of it. DiAngelo, who coined the term white fragility and is the IS THE APOSTLE PAUL RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY? And, had Paul never appeared on the scene, Jesus’ movement would have continued as a little sect obsessed with the end of the world and with neurotically keeping hundreds of ritual commandments, for as Jesus so rigidly say, not one iota of the Jewish Law would pass. In fact, in those aspects that are relevant for the 21st Century, Jesuswas
THE MYTH OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM Institutional racism is best defined as racism perpetrated by government entities. However, since most people, including people on the left, acknowledge that there is no law or government entity explicitly discriminating minorities in modern America, the definition of “institutional” or “systemic” racism has shifted over time. STOICISM OFFERS AN ANTIDOTE TO CANCEL CULTURE Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, is perhaps not an obvious antidote to the increasingly observed tendency of angry social media mobs or “triggered” student activists attempting to de-platform people who have breached the boundaries of “acceptable” discourse. However, in many respects, that is exactly what Stoicism was designedto do.
TIME TO GET VACCINATED...AGAINST PROPAGANDA The march was not covered because the lockdown is going to be painted as a glorious national success, and its critics as science-denying, grandma-killing, selfish, heartless, unpatriotic idiots. The media is getting its ducks in a row to peddle this insulting propaganda—insisting that the suspension of civil liberties and thedestruction of
REVIEW: JOHN BOEHNER’S “ON THE HOUSE” The roots of Boehner’s more dour, pessimistic takes in On the House are in the rise of the “political terrorists.”. Whether it is “The Squad” on the Left or the Freedom Caucus-turned-MAGA base on the Right, Boehner detests those in Congress “peddling chaos and crisis so that everyone keeps paying attention to them.”. GEORGE ORWELL’S VISION FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN: WHAT DID Orwell thought that none of the existing options were suitable for Britain. Fascism, which he despised, was merely “a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.”. Socialism was represented by WHY PEOPLE HATE JORDAN PETERSON SO MUCH (Elliot Ferguson/Postmedia Network) “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'”. T o understand why people hate Dr. Jordan Peterson, the subject of my recent book Savage Messiah, I think it is best to let THE MANY PROBLEMS WITH MARXISM The Many Problems with Marxism. Gerfried Ambrosch. 04/15/2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences. After hours of discussion, he admitted, ‘Well, ultimately, it’s a question of faith.'”. HOW SAM HARRIS CHANGED MY OPINION OF JORDAN PETERSON Sam Harris: Facts and Values. In Peterson’s opinion, the “new atheists,” such as Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins, take our moral rules for granted and do not give credit to the transcendent forces that— for Peterson —gave rise to these ethical systems. Peterson, of course, argues that without the mythological narratives he describes, our ethics (which are, in part JORDAN PETERSON BIOGRAPHER ON WHY PEOPLE HATE HIM SO MUCH For instance, those who fear or are disgusted by the Soviet death camps hate Joseph Stalin, who created them. It’s personal. So when Peterson exposes the Stalinist mindset of today’s popular “woke” culture, it evokes a deeply hateful reaction. The fact that he will not back down or even soften his accusations escalates the hatred ofthe
JAMES LINDSAY: HOW CRITICAL STUDIES LED TO TODAY'S TURMOIL Image via New Discourses “This is an attempt at a social, cultural, and political revolution.” O n July 9th, Kevin Turner had a conversation with Dr. James Lindsay discussing the social and cultural movement that has gripped the nation since the death of George Floyd in late May. An author and mathematician by training, Dr. Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjectsMERIONWEST.COM
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