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majesticflywhisk.blogspot.com | ||
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theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | | | | By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by a "culture of repudiation," keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. (essay by Sir Roger Scruton) | |
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blogs.swarthmore.edu
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| | | | | [AI summary] The text presents a detailed critique of the arguments made by scholars like Daniel Moynihan and Charles Murray, who have attributed poverty and dysfunction among certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States to cultural factors. The author challenges these views by highlighting the diversity and complexity of African and African diasporic societies, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities. The author argues that these groups cannot be characterized as uniformly collectivist, authoritarian, or lacking in individual ambition, and that such portrayals are based on flawed and often racist assumptions. The critique extends to the broader concept of 'cultural difference' as a way to e... | |
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mronline.org
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| | | | | The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point of reexamining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race. | |
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tritonstation.com
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| | | Given recent developments in the long-running hunt for dark matter and the difficulty interpreting what this means, it seems like a good juncture to re-up* this: The history of science is a decision tree. Vertices appear where we must take one or another branching. Sometimes, we take the wrong road for the right reasons. A... | ||
