There’s no official membership list, but there’s a fairly clear description of who’d be on it. In the light of that description, I’ve just found out, much to my delight, that I am myself a member of the Intellectual Dark… Read More ›
Social and Political Philosophy
IN THE WAKE OF THE ‘INCURSION’
Since the – let’s just call it an ‘incursion’ – into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, CNN and MSNBC have been awfulising it as “the end of the American experiment in democracy”, while Fox has been downplaying it as… Read More ›
INTERSECTIONALITY
SJWs have just discovered something no one knew before, namely that sexual discrimination affects a black woman differently than it does a white woman, and racial discrimination affects a black man differently than it does a black woman. Now whodathunkit?… Read More ›
THE MEANING OF 6MWE
Until last Wednesday I was under the happy delusion that I was the most politically incorrect asshole on the planet. I now have to accept that I’ve been bested. For there, in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, and… Read More ›
A HOUSE DIVIDED, AND KEEPING IT THAT WAY
In one my first entries in this blog, “First to the Tribe”, posted on September 14, 2016, I noted – not as a criticism but as a simple observation – that none of us can afford to do all of… Read More ›
THE CALL CENTRE CONUNDRUM
Is it still English if the accent is on the wrong syllable? I want to argue that it’s not. Rebel is a noun. To rebel is a verb. “The rebels opted to rebel.” is English. “The rebels opted to rebel.”… Read More ›
SENSITIVITY READERS
Heaven forfend that books should offend. So I knew that publishers have taken to hiring sensitivity readers. What I didn’t know, but should have guessed, is just how sensitive these sensitivity readers take readers to be. I could regale you… Read More ›
SOCIAL SCIENCE 100
There are five times as many inordinately tall white men as black men in America, and yet there are three times as many blacks in the NBA as whites. Why isn’t this a slam-dunk proof that there’s discrimination against white… Read More ›
ONE PARADOX OF POWER
Last Saturday Donald Trump spent an hour on the phone trying to inveigle the Attorney General of Georgia to ‘find’ him enough votes to overturn the results of the election, in the wake of which some pundits are speculating on… Read More ›
BREONNA TAYLOR AND NO-KNOCK WARRANTS
On the one hand it’s perfectly understandable that law enforcement might not want to give the miscreant the opportunity to flush the evidence before it can be found, or to arm himself so he can go down fighting. But on… Read More ›
