by Kevin Bauder | Jan 23, 2017 | Ethics, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism
Sojourners worries that “Peaceful Protests Could Be Criminalized In Several U.S. States.” The protests they’re talking about are mobs that block streets and highways. That behavior is not protest, it is extortion. Since one of the states is...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 19, 2017 | How the Left Thinks, Liberalism
“Progressive” is a close synonym for “liberal.” Here Chelsen Vicari lists three names that are becoming prominent in (politically and socially) progressive Christianity. She promises more names to come. [Link Repaired]
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 12, 2017 | America, Education, How the Left Thinks
The New Criterion is devoting an entire issue to the new intolerance on university campuses. Herbert Marcuse opens the discussion with an essay on “Why the Left Hates Tolerance.” Here’s his conclusion: The classical liberal (who is also the...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 19, 2016 | America, Art and Literature, Culture, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism, Philosophy, Politics
Is this fake news? The Daily Mail is reporting that Donald Trump has picked movie star Sylvester Stallone for a government post. The most likely position is head of the National Endowment for the Arts. Predictably, the arts community is hyperventilating. On the one...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 17, 2016 | Education, How the Left Thinks
Students at Penn have taken down a portrait of William Shakespeare and replaced it with a portrait of Audre Lorde. According to the Poetry Foundation, Lorde characterizes herself as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” who has devoted her life “and her...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 13, 2016 | Anthropology, Ethics, How the Left Thinks
S. M. Hutchinson asks whether feminists are man-haters in his brief essay, “A Short Course on Feminism.” [E]ven if someone feels no ill-will toward men in general, but supports programs that proscribe maleness in accordance with a formula that makes them...
