So-called critical theorists like to speak about “systemic” racism, and other social sins. Most people spouting such cant have no idea what it means, but they know what it does: it renders their opponents—unrepentant members of “privileged” social “groups”—guilty without a trial, and therefore subject to various forms of abuse without the right to effectiveContinue reading “Systemic Duplicity”
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Uncritical Critics
I’ll never forget my first encounter with “critical race theory,” or the sickening sensation it produced in my soul. I was sitting in the faculty lounge, before or after a meeting whose practical purpose was characteristically impossible to pin down. One of my colleagues, a friendly and warm hearted man, disarmingly zealous in the serviceContinue reading “Uncritical Critics”
Why Study the Science of Servitude?
When a man “is a participator in the government of affairs”—on a daily, and therefore (for most of us) on a local basis—“he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.” So spoke Jefferson. Tocqueville heartily agreed. As SocratesContinue reading “Why Study the Science of Servitude?”
"His Tongue shall Speak Judgment" 