Getting “Woke” with Socrates
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” –Maya Angelou The term “woke” is associated with increasingly widespread…
Ghettoside: High Homicide Environments
Jill Leovy wrote her 2015 book Ghettoside after spending years embedded in the homicide division of a police department in LA and observing the detectives working in…
The Soviet Union of 1944–1991 in the Historiography: Representation of a Polyethnic Political Society
The Soviet Union of 1944–1991 in the Historiography: Representation of a Polyethnic Political Society. Nikolay Konstantinov. Ekaterinburg, Grif Press. 2012 252 p. (in Russian). Note to…
What’s Wrong With a Little Political Correctness?
Political correctness is an instrument of oppression and scapegoating most prominently used by academic and political elites and enforced by mainstream news outlets. It is authoritarian, conformist…
Cultural Diversity
Diversity as Self-Nullifying Culture, in the anthropological sense, is a combination of language and traditions involving values, ideas about education, cooking, family life and public life. Culture…
Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Race
In The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, James Le Fanu provides a devastating instant visual refutation of Ancel Key’s claim that the consumption of animal fat…
Social Justice: An Analysis
Cosmic Justice: Infantile and Nihilistic Social class, home environment, genetics and other factors all contribute to differences between individuals. People differ in looks, height, income, social status,…
I’m Awake, Are You?
One of the latest fads in the university is being “woke”: a recognition of one’s privilege and therefore the need to empathize with those groups who have…
The Resentful Politics of Populism
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Katherine J. Crammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. What is Populism? Jan-Werner Müller.…
Some Maladies of Early Modern Race Study in Shakespeare
The spring 2016 issue of Shakespeare Quarterly (67.1) updates the state of early modern race study in Shakespeare. Guest editors Peter Erickson (Northwestern) and Kim F. Hall…
Cornel West
Prominent American scholar and public intellectual, West is best known for his works on race, religion, and politics in America. An American Book Award recipient, West serves…
Explaining the Constancy of Species: Linneaus, Buffon, and Leibniz
The transition from the transcendent to the immanent view can be traced in each aspect of the life problem . . . . We now turn to…
Species Problem: An Exposition
Linnaeus' biological theory of the fixity of the species is so superbly suited to serve as the point of departure for our investigations because of its persuasive…
Beginning the Quest: Law and Politics in the Early Work of Eric Voegelin
“Inside baseball” has become a metaphor to describe sports reporters who rely on locker room gossip rather than what happens on the playing field. There is an…