Can We Avoid Insulting Believers?
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Skeptics face a quandary: When we declare that supernatural dogmas are false fairy tales, believers may feel bitterly insulted.
Is It Blasphemy – Or Honesty?
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Blasphemy isn’t a dirty word. It's honorable and honest. It’s almost a duty of thinking people to express skepticism of supernatural mumbo-jumbo.
The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech
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The worst manifestations are in universities and their cultural spill-over zones. Campuses are the training ground.
Campus Power Politics – It’s Calculated Strategy
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Most of the many grievances are not meant to be resolved. They are meant to fester and be used in the service of power-politics strategy.
Will the Alt-Right Make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?
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If the Left can make itself adopt the Enlightenment commitment to rationality, then we can at least again appeal to facts and logic.
Postmodernism, Reason and Truth
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By most accounts we have entered a new intellectual age. We are postmodern now. Leading intellectuals tell us that modernism has died.
Postmodernism’s Dangerous Assault on Reason
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Postmodernism rejects the Enlightenment project in the most fundamental way – by attacking its essential philosophical themes.
The puzzle of why postmodernists are hostile to dissent and debate
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It is a puzzle why among the far Left we find civility, tolerance, and fair play the least practiced and even denounced.
How Postmodernists Use Language as a Weapon
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It makes perfect sense that to most postmodernists language is primarily a weapon. This explains the harsh nature of much postmodern rhetoric.
The Machiavellian Politics of Postmodernism
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Postmodernism's relativism is part of a rhetorical political strategy, some Machiavellian realpolitik employed to throw the opposition off track.