Young Americans for Liberty: An Interview with CEO Lauren …
WEBJun 24, 2022 · O n June 9th, Henri Mattila was joined by Lauren Daugherty, the CEO of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). Topics discussed included Ms. Daugherty’s thoughts on YAL’s priorities and current initiatives, the organization’s work defending on-campus speech rights, and what she sees as libertarianism’s role in the cultural debates of today.
The Curious History of Tijuana Bibles - Merion West
WEBFeb 5, 2021 · The Curious History of Tijuana Bibles. “ However, dive a little deeper, and one finds a curious form of expression that—for all of its subversion of the law and public morality—was just as vibrant and popular as the subjects being parodied.”. I n 1967, the underground satirical magazine The Realist published an infamous image at the ...
The Many Problems with Marxism - Merion West
WEBApr 15, 2020 · The Many Problems with Marxism. “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences. After hours of discussion, he admitted, ‘Well, ultimately, it’s a question of faith.'”. T he ultimate test for any theory is whether it works in practice.
When Marx Attacked The Single Tax - Merion West
WEBJun 2, 2019 · This is no different to Marx. George’s theory is accepted as sound but is somehow trivial and redundant: the Single Tax would work but it will “always be stopped” by “the powers that be” etc. The point is this: Georgism is a threat to the very basis of socialism. Georgism dissolves socialism; it is pro-worker and pro-capital at the ...
David Ferrero | Merion West
WEBMar 20, 2020 · Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. (Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh) “ What I left out of that piece are the many questions my immersion has raised whose answers, if I could find them, might help what I’ll call the reasonable unwoke better assess SJ/DEI claims. I would like to air those questions here.”
Review: Michael Millerman’s “Beginning with Heidegger: Strauss, …
WEBApr 13, 2022 · Recent scholarship has increasingly turned against this view, as the publication of Heidegger’s notorious Black Notebooks showcased the thinker directly linking his philosophy to anti-Semitism and Nazism. Beyond that, historians such as Emmanuel Faye and political theorists like Ronald Beiner have published significant works reemphasizing the depth of Heidegger’s far-right convictions and ...
Why I Object to a “Left vs. Right” Political Spectrum
WEBAug 27, 2018 · Right” Political Spectrum. “The left, in all its myriad forms, is unified by a utopian vision and end goal. Meanwhile, ‘the right’ has no such vision and is made of many disparate groups who do not share end goals beyond a general opposition to the left.”. I n June, I wrote an article for Quillette called “The Prison House of ...
On Cultural Poverty - Merion West
WEBJun 8, 2022 · Of course, Orwell’s point is that the Ministry produces only pseudo-culture or anti-culture for the proletariat, which results in their being affected by cultural poverty.. In a 2000 Guardian piece he wrote to mark the launch of Big Brother on British television, Orwell biographer Bernard Crick states that 1984 is “savage, Swiftian satire.” By means of this exaggerated picture, Orwell ...
Review: Slavoj Žižek’s “Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non ...
WEBOct 3, 2022 · S lavoj Žižek’s new book Surplus-Enjoyment is subtitled, A Guide for the Non-Perplexed. It is, presumably, a small audience at which it is aimed, since Žižek’s new offering is nothing if not perplexing. On the first three pages alone, Žižek is logically inconsistent. He jumps from one thought to another, incoherently; he drops names ...
Scandinavia’s War on Babies with Down Syndrome | Merion West
WEBAug 6, 2017 · As a child with DS costs “1 to 2 million Euros,” Belgian pediatrician Patrick Willems says that, “preventing the birth of 50 babies with Down Syndrome will offset the costs of fully implementing the NIPT [a noninvasive, highly accurate prenatal test for DS] into Dutch public healthcare.”. Dutch pediatrician Ko van Wowue treats ending ...