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  • Study Linking Authoritarianism to Conservatives Retracted

    Study Linking Authoritarianism to Conservatives Retracted0

    Conservatives are from Mars, liberals are from Venus. So announced the headline of an article in The Atlantic back in 2012 that was based on a number of peer-reviewed studies. But are they really? The preferred narrative in academic and media circles would have you believe they are. Thus, in 2012, a study the article

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  • Psychologist: Social Justice the new Religious Fundamentalism

    Psychologist: Social Justice the new Religious Fundamentalism0

    Religious believers sometimes say that atheism is a “faith,” and in that sense a religion. That’s debatable because they’re using the word ‘faith’ ambiguously, and trading on that ambiguity. But according to NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, there is a scientific sense in which a relatively new, secular “religion” of “social justice” is entrenching itself

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  • Why Censorship Doesn’t Really Work

    Why Censorship Doesn’t Really Work0

    If it was up to the devotees of political correctness, we should never utter certain words or phrases. Why? Because according to postmodern philosophy words are as powerful as fists and guns; they are tools of pain and oppression. Let’s leave aside for a moment the issue of whether words are really weapons. Let’s also

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