Cant is insincere expression of concern for others or denunciation of contrary opinion. It is harmful, infectious and when caught by enough people can destroy free thought, free speech, intelligent discourse and the very ability to recognize – and live in – reality. The eternally-immune Theodore Dalrymple diagnoses our current contagion in City Journal.
Universities are locked in a struggle between preserving their historical role as educational institutions committed to truth-seeking and a new mandate that subordinates truth to the values of social diversity. The University of Chicago and Northwestern provide case studies from both sides for Law and Liberty’s John O. McGinnis to report on what is at stake.
Skepticism entails suspending judgement until we have sufficient evidence. Until recent days, every thinking person valued it as a necessary corrective for popular orthodoxies and enthusiasms. Brendan O’Neill, writing in Spiked, thinks vilifying and shaming those skeptical of lockdowns is akin to a new witch hunt.
The rush to further embrace technology unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic is at last triggering sober second thoughts. In Hedgehog Review, Christine Rosen argues that despite Zoom’s advantages we still long for face-to-face human connections. Seeking wholesale solutions to human problems in technology, she argues, exacts a high price.
Twitter has permanently banned Donald Trump, a serving American President and recipient of the second-largest number of votes ever garnered by a presidential candidate. In Unherd, Ed West notes that Twitter indulges vast amounts of extreme incivility, incitement to violence and even racial hatred – provided it furthers the progressive agenda.
Universities are locked in a struggle between preserving their historical role as educational institutions committed to truth-seeking and a new mandate that subordinates truth to the values of social diversity. The University of Chicago and Northwestern provide case studies from both sides for Law and Liberty’s John O. McGinnis to report on what is at stake.
Skepticism entails suspending judgement until we have sufficient evidence. Until recent days, every thinking person valued it as a necessary corrective for popular orthodoxies and enthusiasms. Brendan O’Neill, writing in Spiked, thinks vilifying and shaming those skeptical of lockdowns is akin to a new witch hunt.
The rush to further embrace technology unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic is at last triggering sober second thoughts. In Hedgehog Review, Christine Rosen argues that despite Zoom’s advantages we still long for face-to-face human connections. Seeking wholesale solutions to human problems in technology, she argues, exacts a high price.
Twitter has permanently banned Donald Trump, a serving American President and recipient of the second-largest number of votes ever garnered by a presidential candidate. In Unherd, Ed West notes that Twitter indulges vast amounts of extreme incivility, incitement to violence and even racial hatred – provided it furthers the progressive agenda.
