by Peter Venetoklis | May 26, 2016 | Election, Politics
The dust has settled, all challengers have conceded, and Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election. The press has started turning its eye to the increasingly nasty contest between Hillary Clinton, the all-but-certain...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 23, 2016 | Culture
Much is made today of “cultural appropriation,” the act of emulating styles, behaviors, language, cuisine, etc that are rooted in or traditionally associated with other cultures. It’s the latest battlefield of the social justice warriors, who went so...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 10, 2016 | Culture, Opinion
One of the newer catchphrases birthed in the fetid swamps of the social justice movement is “cultural appropriation,” wherein (presumably white) people dress, act, dance or otherwise behave in a manner that’s associated with another (presumably...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 2, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Opinion
A recent article in The Atlantic led with the headline Too Many Elite American Men Are Obsessed With Work and Wealth, and followed with the sub-headline “And it’s making the pay gap worse.” The article opens with the reported wage gap between women...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 15, 2016 | Education
From a libertarian’s perspective, there are few failings of modern liberalism worse than its subordination of the individual to identity groups or to the collective as a whole. In this manner, modern liberalism flips on its head the tenets of classical...
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