On Statues, Human Imperfection, and the Veneration of American Heroes
When we elevate historical figures to an almost godlike status, we make it that much harder to acknowledge, discuss, and learn from their failures and mistakes.
When we elevate historical figures to an almost godlike status, we make it that much harder to acknowledge, discuss, and learn from their failures and mistakes.
COVID-19 should not be wielded as a political club on Americans' rights to peaceably assemble.
Antifa's commitment to violence is largely out of step with movements like BLM and the George Floyd protests and it's doing real harm to the cause.
Your valuation of human life is almost certainly dependent upon hundreds, or perhaps even thousands of variables. The belief in an afterlife, or lack thereof, may indeed be one of those variables. But nothing more than that.
If we embrace the idea that the value of human life is permanently diminished by each and every mistake that we make, we must necessarily concede that many of us are just as deserving.
The progressive news giant is in the midst of a very ugly battle with staff who say that their union activities are being met with resistance and retaliation.
I certainly don't think you belong in jail and I'm a believer in second chances. But first, you need to apologize.
Only in our cynical, all-encompassing political moment could Billie Eilish simultaneously be criticized as both a nihilistic radical and the embodiment of traditionalist whiteness.
If the show’s writers and producers choose to turn Picard into a garden-variety polemic against the Brexiteers and their conservative counterparts in America—they’ll waste a golden opportunity.
I’m still not sure who the real Jordan Peterson is, and I’m not sure I ever will.