How Individualism Created Our Postmodern Culture
Have the courage to use your own reason was never intended to be a cruel slogan, but it was meant for simpler times. The complexity of twentieth century institutions combined…
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Alexander Blum
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Alexander Blum writes fiction and essays. He has written previously for Quillette and Psychology Today. His website is http://www.alexanderblum.net/
Chomsky vs. Foucault, Revisited
The year was 1971. Thomas Pynchon had published his first two novels, the Pentagon Papers were published and Richard Nixon was withdrawing troops from the massively unpopular Vietnam War. In…
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Carl Jung Was Not a Mystic
Carl Jung is one of the most misunderstood thinkers of the twentieth century. This is partly his own fault. While Jung’s teacher, Sigmund Freud, dismissed religious ideas as the expression…
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Dostoevsky’s Campaign Against Rationalism and Progress
Fyodor Dostoevsky was defeated by history. A man who viciously attacked and satirized the ideologies of rationalism and communism and defended traditional religious and family structures, Dostoevsky died just decades…
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Oligarchy, Immigration and Intersectionality: Contradictions on the Left
In his interview with Joe Rogan, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was asked where the lobbyists in Washington came from, and what could be done to stop them. Sanders told Rogan…
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The Left-Wing Case Against Censorship of Social Media
In conversations about online extremism, the question of platforms inevitably arises. YouTube, for example, may be held culpable for featuring video recommendations that lead young men down rabbit holes of…
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The Future of the Intellectual Dark Web
The Intellectual Dark Web—loosely defined as the group of public intellectuals coalescing around issues of freedom of speech in the context of left-wing political correctness on American campuses—is one of…
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