Prosecutorial Democracy and the Future of Cancellation
For more than a decade, cancel culture has contributed to the stifling of public debate and the ruin of private lives. Academics, artists, and professionals have found themselves deplatformed, disinvited, and unemployed for little more than expressing an opinion or publishing research that departs from current dogma. In From Cancel Culture to ......
Tackling prejudice, hatred, and discrimination is both laudable and necessary. In Britain and elsewhere, however, this noble cause has spawned a much less worthy corollary - the assumption that any criticism of Muslims or Islam should not be tolerated. The result has been an increase in false accusations of "Islamophobia" ("Islamofauxbia"), ......
Diversity, Antisemitism, and the Limits of Tolerance
In the decades since 1945, Western Europe has undergone a seismic social and political transformation. The evils of racism, authoritarianism, and exclusionary nationalism, which once prevailed, have been defeated and marginalized. Through an arduous process of democratization and liberalization, todays Western Europe is almost unrecognizable ......
How Classical Education and Psychoanalysis Could Have Saved Us
We're trapped in a dying habitat-all 8.2 billion of us. Why did we do this to ourselves? Envious and Deceived: How Classical Education and Psychoanalysis Could Have Saved Us is a study of society's suicide. It shows how humanity's envy and self-deception let it destroy our habitat by overpopulation. Classical Education and Psychoanalysis were ......
The Greek notion of the "sophist" might seem antiquated or meaningless, until we look at the world we are living in: a world of images, counterfeits, and false appearances, starting even with our own, a world where money has become the criterion for all other values and deceptive advertisement the pinnacle of commercial astuteness, where ......
Consciousness is Curvature envisions consciousness-human and artificial-as a dynamic curvature of informational and computational spaces, drawing parallels with the theory of general relativity's malleable spacetime and with quantum theory's probabilistic nature. This collection of philosophical essays on artificial intelligence (AI) sees ......
In Rogue Justice, Israeli-American attorney Yonatan Green provides indispensable critical insight into the heavily disputed state of the Israeli legal system, and into the controversial process by which the Israeli Supreme Court gradually attained judicial supremacy. Through exploration and discussion of key judicial decisions and novel doctrines ......
Surviving evolutionary lines of animals and plants all had their adaptive keys for flourishing in the long run. In the case of humans, a lack of primate specializations opened the door to unique evolutionary possibilities. From the Miocene Era about 20 million years ago, nature began to offer new possibilities to creatures with larger brains and ......
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true... think on these things," St. Paul tells us. But today, too many of our institutions command otherwise. You must accept that there are more than two genders. You must trust the legacy media. You must reject your history, hate your culture, and accept American decline. You must obey the absurd ......