Tag: discourse
Yes, free speech for fascists — a confession
March 10, 2017 | Post
Free expression is so important that we must tolerate even the expression of opposition to free expression.
In praise of safe spaces on campus
March 9, 2017 | Post
I want to come out in favor of safe spaces. Not everywhere, or for all purposes, but in general I think there should be a strong presumption in favor of limited and exclusive safe spaces for any group that wants to establish one. Of course, the group would need to have the ability and legal […]
Individual liberty for a diverse society: Public reason liberalism
February 27, 2017 | Post
Even well informed people of good will have very different religious, moral, and philosophic views.
If you want to persuade people, stop “winning” arguments
February 26, 2017 | Post
People won’t thank you for “beating them,” but there are gentler and more effective ways to change minds.
Make Compromise Great Again: Arthur Schlesinger and the politics of the extreme
February 8, 2017 | Post
It is the peripheral positions in modern politics, on both right and left, that inevitably deteriorate into tyranny.
Micro-aggression and Macro-aggression
March 3, 2016 | Post
“The best response to micro-aggression is macro-aggression.” So says Cal State University Los Angeles Professor Robert Weide in response to an editor from the news website Breitbart giving a speech before students at Cal State University. Let’s unpack that statement, shall we? Micro-aggressions, defined as real or perceived everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, […]