Two Cheers for the University of Austin
Following the recent launch of the University of Austin, a new university that is to be “dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth,” the responses have been mostly cheers from…
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Bradley Campbell
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Bradley Campbell is a professor of sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology and co-author of The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars.
When Is a Riot Not a Riot?
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, people gathered in cities across the United States, demanding justice. Most were law-abiding, peaceful protesters, who…
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Human Responses to Contagion: Persecution, Blame, Compassion
On 26 February, it had already been several weeks since I’d started closely following the news of what’s been called the novel coronavirus (technically, the virus is SARS-Cov-2, and the…
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Conservative Victimhood
Since Jason Manning and I first started writing about victimhood culture, we’ve been interested in the culture’s spread beyond the campus left where it began and where it appears in…
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Genocide and Evil
What if genocide perpetrators aren’t all mustache-twirling villains plotting to do evil? What if they believe they’re in the right?
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