Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Forms of Oppression

By Morton Deutsch March 2005 with “Current Implications” by Heidi Burgess added in July 2020. I consider here five types of injustices that are involved in oppression: distributive injustice, procedural injustice, retributive injustice, moral exclusion, and cultural imperialism. To identify which groups of people are oppressed and what […]

Who Will Win America’s Next Civil War?

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Lyceum Round-Table #67: Review of last years predictions

Last year in this episode: Lyceum Round-Table #49: Year in Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TvKb… Keith, Swithun, Terminal Philosophy and I made some predictions about the coming year. A lot has happened in 2022 and we will compare what has happened with what we thought might happen. Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast […]

Laurence H. Tribe: Deconstructing Dobbs

New York Review of Books “The theocratic movement to advance religiously based governance—the antithesis of genuine religious freedom—has installed as the law of the land the essentially unreasoned position advanced in Dobbs,” writes Laurence H. Tribe in the Review’s September 22 issue. His is a thorough indictment of […]

Beyond the 1619 Project: Holding Academics and Journalists Accountable

Intellectual watchdog Phil Magness talks stealth edits on Nikole Hannah-Jones’ 1619 Project, Duke historian Nancy MacLean’s false charges of racism, Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s bastardization of Ludwig von Mises, and Kevin Kruse’s plagiarism investigation at Princeton. https://reason.com/video/2022/09/13/b… — 0:00 Intro 3:06 Kevin Kruse and plagiarism 8:46 Nancy McLean and Democracy […]

Ron DeSantis: Good or Bad for Liberty?

A live discussion about how libertarians should think about the country’s most controversial governor. —– No governor is more cheered and hated right now than Florida Republican Ron DeSantis, currently in the news for flying around 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. The 44-year-old Navy veteran and double-Ivy-Leaguer […]

What Is MAGA Communism?

Republicans and Communists have more in common than what appears on the surface. Both are rooted in the radical traditions of the Enlightenment, i.e. Lockean classical liberals and Rousseavian Jacobins. At one point, there was such as thing as “Red Republicans” (i.e. revolutionary republicans from the 1848 era). […]

Blood on the Cutting Room Floor

Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Blood on the Cutting Room Floor The Corbett Report SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/cuttingroomfloor/ Do you think The Corbett Report’s new 5+ hour, 50,000 word documentary, False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda, wasn’t long enough? Do you think […]

The Fall of Los Angeles

By Joel Kotkin For much of the 20th century, Los Angeles symbolised the future. Over the course of the century, the population grew 40-fold to nearly four million people. But now, for the first time in its history, the population of Los Angeles is in decline, falling by […]

The Emperor Wears No Scrubs!

By Antony Sammeroff I’m sure you’ve heard as much as I have about the wonders of modern medicine, and how we are all living longer, happier and healthier lives as a result of it. After all, our ancestors were plagued by diseases like polio, tuberculosis, whooping cough, rickets, […]

Is Defunding the Police a “Luxury Belief”?Analyzing White vs. Nonwhite Democrats’ Attitudes on Depolicing

Zach GoldbergSeptember 8, 2022 Policing & Public SafetyAll Executive Summary After the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, a surprising number of Democrats embraced calls to “defund” the police. According to data from the 2020 Cooperative Election Survey, 35.4% of Democrats expressed support for reducing spending on […]