Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Critical Race Theory

  • Know the Enemy!

    We are at war with the Left and we ought to face the fact. The most virulent and anti-civilizational forms of leftism presently infect our educational institutions: A recent headline from Seattle provides evidence for just how commonplace destructive ideas have become in our educational institutions as they have trickled down from the universities, reinforcing…

  • What Is Critical Race Theory?

    An explanation by James Lindsay that goes to the heart of the matter in less than three and one half minutes. I add the following which is an excerpt from my Substack article, Critical Race Theory Attracts the Uncritical. A key word in the CRT arsenal is 'equity.' 'Equity' sounds good and so people are…

  • Critical Race Theory Attracts the Uncritical

    People are suckers for Critical Race Theory (CRT) because they cannot think critically. Substack latest.

  • The Core Tenets of the ‘Woke’ Revolution

    Wake up to 'woke' by reading this outstanding piece by Bari Weiss.  It is long, but very clear, covers the essential points, includes examples and some suggestions on how to fight back, and last but not least, it receives the MavPhil plenary endorsement and nihil obstat. And now I would like to ask any of…

  • Andrew Sullivan on Critical Race Theory

    Sullivan writes, Here is how critical theory defines itself in one of its central documents. It questions the very foundations of “Enlightenment rationality, legal equality and Constitutional neutrality.” It begins with the assertion that these are not ways to further knowledge and enlarge human freedom. They are rather manifestations of white power over non-white bodies.…

  • Critical Race Theory Attracts the Uncritical

    People are suckers for Critical Race Theory (CRT) because they cannot think critically. A key word in the CRT arsenal is 'equity.'  ('Arsenal' is the right word given the Left's weaponization of language.) It is an Unbegriff, an unconcept. It combines something good with something unattainable except by the toleration of grave evils. Let me…