Against Moral Progress
Obert argues for the existence of moral progress by pointing to free speech, democracy, mass street protests against wars, the end of slavery… and we could also cite female suffrage, or the fact that...
View ArticleParable of the Unstoppable Mad Man
I promised that the next essay in this series would be relatively benign. So here is a thought experiment performed on an uncaring outsider. Taking the vague form of a man and always busy, he spends...
View ArticleJezebel’s Vigilante Squad
Reading Jezebel’s “An Idiot’s Guide to Free Speech,” a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville comes to mind: I do not know a country where there is in general less intellectual independence and less freedom...
View ArticleFoseti’s Review of “The Better Angels of Our Nature”
Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of Our Nature is often held up uncritically as “proof” that the world is getting less violent over time and therefore better. This is similar to how Guns, Germs,...
View ArticleTotal Reaction
A prescient post on the neoreaction appeared on April 10, 2012, at the Midwest Ballad Review blog. John Derbyshire had just been fired from National Review Online for a notorious article he wrote for...
View ArticleLinks for November
I recommend reading Inaccessible is ungovernable by Handle where the term ‘accessible’ is used in the Microsoft sense. “The theory of general suffrage in a republic also uses this justification to...
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