I don't believe in intellectual cooties. Reason: This year there has been a lot of discussion about whether there's a pipeline between libertarians and the alt-right.
Social commentator Shelby Steele recently wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal wondering if the protests by black NFL players during the playing of the national anthem, signals the end of any weight being placed on public protests by blacks in America today.
The public needs to be “careful” about how it responds to the #MeToo movement because it could turn women into “snowflakes” and make men resentful of them, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
What, exactly, did the NFL "take-a-knee" protests by wealthy black football players protesting racial injustice accomplish? Based on what most people could see, pretty much nothing, other than lost ticket sales. People go to football games to be entertained, not to be lectured by their supposed betters in another dreary virtue-signaling game.
The word “psychology” literally means the study of the soul (psukhē, in Greek). As such, it is an academic discipline that is unique in the way it straddles the sciences (natural and social) and the humanities.
The campaign is sponsored by both the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute, endorsed by President Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Drell, and conceived by students. Each event in the series will be a discussion, rather than a debate or lecture, between two intellectuals holding distinct views.
