Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation

Feb 19, 2024 by

by Jacob Phillips, Artillery Row: Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography. If I wanted to maximise clicks, I could suggest this piece is subtitled something like “How the Regime made...

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A Reflection for a New Year

Jan 1, 2024 by

by R J Snell, Public Discourse: As the new year begins, we’re all well aware of the many challenges facing us. Given these, it can be easy to give in to the counsels of despair. It’s also easy to turn to ideology for solutions, but it is...

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Welcome to the multiverse: Introduction.

Dec 5, 2022 by

by Martin Davie: Why we live in a multiverse. One of the features of C S Lewis’ Narnia stories that is generally overlooked is the fact that they are set in a multiverse.  In these stories Lewis’ characters move between our universe and...

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How far-Right are you?

Oct 2, 2022 by

by Mary Harrington, UnHerd: Progressive contagion is coming for us all. A common form of classroom cruelty when I was at school involved a game we called “Contagion”. The instigator would touch the person next to them, having chosen a...

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How woke is Nietzsche?

Aug 25, 2022 by

by Giles Fraser, UnHerd: “There are no facts,” said Nietzsche, “only interpretations.” Some think the philosopher, who died on this day in 1900, went mad through syphilis; others that he had brain cancer. But whatever the cause of his...

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Why Seek the Truth? The Achilles’ Heel of Free Thought

Jul 5, 2022 by

by: Neil Shenvi, Crossway: Facing Reality. One of the most attractive features of the free thought movement has always been its purported commitment to the truth. From the philosophical skepticism of the Enlightenment to the New Atheism...

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