Left and Right Spectrum is Tribal Religious Nonsense Which is Useless for Logical Thinking

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(Book Review) In The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America we argue that this is incorrect and that, in fact, it’s the very conceptualization of politics in terms of a political spectrum that is itself causing much of our political dysfunction.

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The Stifling of Viewpoint Diversity and Open Inquiry in American Higher Education: North Korean defector Yeonmi Park’s Experience. She enrolled at Columbia only to find that the university was eager use tactics that reminded her strongly of those deployed by the North Korean government.

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Thinking Differently About the Cancel Wars on Campus. The attempts to silence or reject some views — and people — are attempts to claim evolving norms of public conversation.

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Stop Settling for Tribalism this Semester. Disrupt It. imagine disrupting the usual us/them campus dynamics by cultivating genuine curiosity toward controversial speakers or ideas. Imagine disrupting the endless declarations of Twitter with encouraging questions and invitations to clarify.

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This Academic Establishment Won the Debate by Ignoring It. A newspaper editorial in Finland sparked a national debate about ideological bias and pseudoscience in academic scholarship. The debate ended with a viral social media campaign that drowned out the critics without addressing their concerns.

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Sinister Sounds: How the Phonetics of “Scare Words” Amplifies Their Meaning - Heterodox Academy. More and more, linguists and phonologists are finding a nonarbitrary relationship between the sound of words and the feelings they arouse in people.

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The Empathy Challenge is a practical tool for developing empathy. As you listen to someone who disagrees with you about an important topic, you find shared values. "But I knew I hadn’t actually been listening; I had been caricaturing other people’s views without having asked about them."

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God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success. Horwitz explores why an intensely religious Christian upbringing helps teens complete more years of schooling, but often at lower-quality institutions.

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School Choice and Viewpoint Diversity: Competing Visions. A Dialogue Between Greg Forster and Robert Pondiscio (Part 1) - Heterodox Academy. This blog is part of our new “Heterodox Dialogues” series, which models constructive disagreement among authors who hold opposing or conflicting views.

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Difficult Conversations Around College Rankings: A Research Summary - Heterodox Academy

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Heterodox Academicians, Make Madison Your Model - Heterodox Academy

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Classics Before the Enlightenment - Heterodox Academy. In this article, I’ve argued that a Western tradition with roots in Greco-Roman antiquity isn’t just an ideological construct of the Enlightenment.

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Why another book on free speech? And what’s with the cartoons? I’ve been asked these questions many times in the weeks since the publication of my new book, Free Speech and Why You Should Give a Damn. And the best way to answer is with a story that appears in the book’s opening pages.

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Why We Should Read What We Cite (Because It Matters) - Heterodox Academy. “There is evidence of medical bias in the testing and treatment of African-Americans with COVID-19” and cites this report as the source. The problem? The report contains no such evidence.

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Teaching Students to Engage with Opposing Viewpoints - Heterodox Academy

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Could Feminism (Again) Provide an Argument for More Conservatives? What has made me inclined to want to see more political conservatives in the faculty ranks of American colleges and universities? Feminism.

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Few Academics Support Cancel Culture - Heterodox Academy. Most academics in the United States, Britain and Canada do not support dismissing politically-incorrect academics. However the social justice radicals win again and again.

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Why John Stuart Mill Matters More than Ever: A Student Perspective - Heterodox Academy. It is difficult to conjure a more relevant – if not urgent – essay that a student of the liberal arts should read than On Liberty.

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To Be Sensible About Race is Not "Blaming the Victim" - Heterodox Academy. The Elect are operating according to a religious frame of mind that leads them to suppose that the fundamentals of their value system are morality incarnate.

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Why Ibram Kendi’s Antiracism is So Flawed - Heterodox Academy. The full arc of American history can be understood as a battle between these two souls, Kendi says, with genocide, enslavement, Trump and bigotry on the one side and equality, science, Biden and empathy on the other.

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Why I Didn’t Put a Trigger Warning on My COVID-19 Assignment - Heterodox Academy

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White Fragility Is Not the Answer. Honest Diversity Is. Research shows, shaming humiliates and plants the seeds of animosity. It demeans one group to redeem the dignity of another, sowing resentment, fueling self-censorship, and undermining collaboration.

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College Propaganda. The authors don’t pull their punches. Chapter 3 is “Why Most Academic Advertising is Immoral Bullshit.” They are concerned that most colleges promise what they can’t deliver, indeed, can’t even define. In other words, they lie, or at least are guilty of “negligent advertising.”

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Broadly speaking, Smith argues, “American sociology’s sacred project is a secular salvation story developed out of the modern traditions of Enlightenment, liberalism, Marxism, reformist progressivism, pragmatism, therapeutic culture, sexual liberation, civil rights, feminism, and so on” (p. 20).

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The ‘scientization’ of politics (namely the dependence of liberal democracies on expert knowledge for most tasks of governance) leads to the politicization of science, and the two processes constantly feed off and amplify one another.

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Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, explains how white identity is threatened by immigration and how this trend drives polarization in English-speaking nations.

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Heterodox Academy Podcast Episode 80: Eric Kaufmann, Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities. He suggests a number of ways of dealing with this transformation including his preferred solution multivocalism, which he contrasts with multiculturalism.

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Heterodox professor assigns students to interview someone they disagree with. Astoundingly, some of them understand a different point of view and a few even changed their minds. Wow! It's like free speech is a good value to have or something.

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