#Cultural

Peter Boghossian

peterboghossian

How to destroy civilization in 10 easy steps:1) Claim that science, reason, and rationality are tools of oppression. 2) Focus on equality of outcome at the expense of equality of

Oli Mould

olimould

Anyone who has studied the creative city rhetoric over the last 2 decades or so will tell you that they only thing keeping its runaway gentrification in check has been

Alex Leaf

AlexJLeaf

I don't support Critical Race Theory (CRT) because (1) it needs to redefine terms to suit its agenda and (2) it presumes their premises to be true without evidence. A

Jeremiah Brown

JeremiahTBrown

The biggest mistake that leftists make (and are continuing to make) is to separate cultural and economic voting motivations. It's true that they can be distinguished, but they are deeply

Paul Anleitner

PaulAnleitner

According to the Hofstede Index, the U.S. is the most individualistic society in the world. Yet that value of individualism at the macro level allows for the formation of micro-cultures

Josh Shepperd

joshshepperd

The hostile takeover of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe totally destroyed a Library of Congress NRPB project I had been working on for about three years. Covid also

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artfromafriend

I think a lot of Asian kids have complicated relationships with their parents and there's a lot of nuance to be discussed in that realm, but I also wish there

Keith Humphreys

KeithNHumphreys

Many media outlets are responding to current economic challenges in a self-defeating way. As advertising revenue falls, outlets struggle, and journalist jobs disappear, the economically rational thing for outlets to

UrbanAfricaACC

UrbanAfricaACC

Why do cities matter? This is a question @EdgarPieterse is addressing in an input to the @UN Senior Management team today on The Future of Cities. Answer:• Central to new

Julie Zhuo

joulee

A thread (and story) about managing with different cultural contexts. Some of you immigrants/minorities will know what I'm talking about when I say that it took me maybe three decades

Animism in Practice (Faramir)

AnimismPractice

(1/6) The majority of us were not raised in an isolated tribe in the middle of some forest. We were shaped by the systems various tools. From non-ancestral spiritual practices

Who's Gonna Be Lucky Indicted #2? - Brian Cates

drawandstrike

Dear Sane Americans in the Blue States. I know right now you're scared as you watch the Ideological Lunatics who've been voted into power over you stand down, defund &

Sharkie

1PolicyWonk

It’s said “those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Forty-two-years ago, late President Siyaad Bare govt introduced Family Law (aka Xeerka Qoyska) to protect the rights

Louis Römer

lromeranth

The same 2016 tropes around “it’s not race, but class” are being recycled in 2020 election analyses. At best they evince a poor grasp of what race or class are.

Martha Brockenbrough INTO THE BLOODRED WOODS

mbrockenbrough

Beneath the debate over the canon, there might be some underlying misapprehension of what keeps "literature" alive.For one thing, anything that anyone likes reading is keeping it alive. When you

Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧

thomaschattwill

The logic of capitalizing the B in black but not the W in white—it simply doesn’t hold. The idea that white does not describe a shared cultural history, but that

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