by Henry Oliner | Jul 20, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism, Social
From William Galston in The Wall Street Journal, A Deeper Look at Critical Race Theory: Following Gramsci’s lead, critical race theory has used mainstream concepts such as equality and inclusion to wage a highly effective war of position against liberal ideology. Some...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2020 | Science, Social
From Unheard, Why We Stopped Trusting Experts: Ritchie’s section on bias also includes a clear account of some technical elements of statistical reasoning, failures to adhere to which are Ritchie classes as “analytic biases.” These biases include things like only...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 26, 2019 | Politics, Social
From The Wall Street Journal, Left-Wing Politics and the Decline of Sociology, by Jackson Toby: Coleman himself believed that racial segregation was morally wrong, but professionally he conducted the educational-inequality survey as objectively as he could—not to...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 25, 2018 | Social
From an interview with Camille Paglia at Quillette, It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World: What I see in both the Women’s March and #MeToo is an atavistic rediscovery by Western women of the joy of their own mutually nurturing solidarity—a primary feature of...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 20, 2018 | Philosophy, Politics, Social
From an interview with Camille Paglia at Quillette, It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World: Paglia: The headlong rush to judgment by so many well-educated, middle-class women in the #MeToo movement has been startling and dismaying. Their elevation of emotion and...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 13, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism, Social
from Shelby Steele at The WSJ, Black Protest Has Lost Its Power What happened was that black America was confronted with a new problem: the shock of freedom. This is what replaced racism as our primary difficulty. Blacks had survived every form of human debasement...
