Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Leftism and Political Correctness

  • Political Correctness in the Philosophy Journals

    I found the following in a technical article on the philosophy of time by a male author: The defender of the spotlight theory also embraces past and future objects, but she accepts a "fuller" conception of these objects than the Williamsonian.  According to her . . . . Suddenly I am distracted from the abstruse…

  • Why Do Leftists Call Good People Racists?

    Dennis Prager: First, truth is not a left-wing value. As I have said and written ever since studying communism and the left in graduate school at the Columbia University Russian Institute, truth is a [classically] liberal value and a conservative value, but it is not a left-wing value. However, destroying opponents by destroying their reputations…

  • The Left’s Attack on Charities

    The Left's assault on individual liberty, private property, and free markets extends to an insane attack on charitable giving.  Part of the explanation is that leftists are totalitarians who cannot tolerate the institutions of civil society that stand between the individual and Leviathan. Here is a fine statement: Americans are historically averse to socialism, and…

  • Anthony Flood Reviews David Horowitz, Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America

    Excerpts: Cultural Marxism is but the latest form of the cultural cancer now metastasizing throughout the body politic. (Marxism-Leninism was only the deadliest form, not the first, but even today old-fashioned Communism does not lack adherents.) That the Democratic Party is now this malignancy’s host is the grim, but well-documented, conclusion of Horowitz’s long literary…

  • Was Jesus a Socialist?

    No way! He actually fed people. ………………….. I came to this witticism via Karl White who got it from someone unnamed.  It is too good not to repeat and propagate.  So do your bit and spread it around. You can't battle the Left effectively with just one weapon: the whole arsenal has to be brought…

  • Nancy the Ripper’s Latest Outrage

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  • Will Leftists Now Re-Evaluate their Espousal of a “Borderless World”?

    We of the Coalition of the Sane understand that one of the many reasons for enforced national borders is to impede the spread of deadly diseases. So I am hoping that such globalist nitwits as John Kerry and Hillary Clinton will learn something from COVID-19.  They will perhaps learn the importance of border control. If…

  • Foolish Leftists

    The political authorities are tasked with the protection of life, liberty, and property. But when the authorities abdicate, fearing the charge of 'racism,' the citizen must look to his own protection. And so the leftist foolishly works against his own interest: he wants fewer guns in civilian hands, but coddles criminals, thereby giving the citizen…

  • Solzhenitsyn on Gulag Interrogation

    Here are some passages from The Gulag Archipelago that everyone should read.  A sample: If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would…

  • Medicare for All?

    Some of the Democrat candidates for president are calling for Medicare for all, in those terms. The call makes no sense. Medicare is a U. S. government program for American citizens 65 years of age and older. (There are minor exceptions that don't affect my main point.) Now even Democrats know that not every citizen…

  • Are Fascist Antifa Thugs Blind to their Contradictory Behavior?

    A re-titled and redacted version of an entry originally posted 1 September 2017.  ……………………… Yes, says Jonathan Turley: At Berkeley and other universities, protesters have held up signs saying “F–k Free Speech” and have threatened to beat up anyone taking their pictures, including journalists. They seem blissfully ignorant of the contradiction in using fascistic tactics…

  • The ‘Progressive’

    A typical 'progressive' will insist that the law-abiding citizen exercising his constitutionally protected (not constitutionally conferred) right to keep and bear arms has no need of weapons since it is the job of the police to protect the citizenry against the criminal element. At the same time, this  'progressive' works to undermine the police and…

  • Is Meaningful Dialog Possible with Leftists?

    I rather doubt it. Suppose a bunch of leftists such as the editors of Commonweal say the following: We reject the xenophobia and racism of many forms of ethno-nationalism, explicit and implicit, as grave sins against God the Creator. Violence done against the bodies of marginalized people is violence done against the body of Christ.…

  • Why the Left Hates Christmas

    Dennis Prager (emphasis added): One is that the left sees in Christianity its primary ideological and political enemy. And it is right to do so. The only large-scale organized opposition to the left comes from the traditional Christian community — evangelical Protestants, traditional Catholics and faithful Mormons — and Orthodox Jews. Leftism is a secular…

  • Subsidiarity as Bulwark against the Left’s Assault on Civil Society

    David A. Bosnich, The Principle of Subsidiarity: One of the key principles of Catholic social thought is known as the principle of subsidiarity. This tenet holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization. In other words, any activity…