Empowering Minds Through Alternative Perspectives

https://substack.com/home/post/p-192912361 I want to address a related issue that troubled me throughout my academic career in a Scottish university: the accelerating, and increasingly unmanageable, pathologising of personality traits, eccentricities, and especially basic skills deficits as ‘disabilities’ requiring ‘adjustments’. This trend is intimately connected to critical social justice theory’s power-and-privilege model, and much of what is…

https://www.withoutdiminishment.com/p/white-guilt-canadian-style Shelby Steele and his son Eli are releasing a new documentary, White Guilt, that should be compulsory viewing for anyone interested in Canada’s cultural malaise. Steele’s thesis, which originally grew out of the post-civil rights American context, has become increasingly relevant for understanding how English Canada went off the rails culturally, beginning in the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRWdHSbM2DQ Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist and professor at the University of Buckingham, and one of the few academics who has tried to define what people mean when they talk about “woke” as an ideology, rather than just a term of criticism. Much of the current discussion around these ideas is confused or imprecise.…