#politics
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Pocket-Sized Oppression
“Being okay with any expression of sexism, however small, is equivalent to being okay with someone using the N-word—as long as they say it quietly.”
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It’s Not Politics, It’s Pattern Recognition , or : The Kids Will Be All Right
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights felt too good to be true even back when I was at school.
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Woke : From Commune To Culture War
The nasty little word has become a slur these days – you label someone woke to shut them up.
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Good Anti-Racist, Bad Anti-Racist : Pledge Allegiance or Leave
Are you a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew?
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Mythmakers’ Servants : from Cromwell to Oppenheimer
No matter how rational a society’s engineers and tax collectors are, they’re ultimately obeying the command of mythmakers.
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Le Fraternité, c’est Surestimé
It takes a few days to adjust to the sight of them—the scores of homeless people living on Paris’s streets.