Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Leftism and Political Correctness

  • Fidel Castro, Hero of the Left

    ●He turned Cuba into a colony of the Soviet Union and nearly caused a nuclear holocaust. ●He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth. ●He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon. ●He…

  • ‘Constructivism’ Gone Wild: Biological Male Wins Women’s Cycling Event

    Story here: A 36-year-old biological male dominated the women’s division of the El Tour de Tucson last weekend, an annual cycling competition in Arizona that attracts thousands of amateur and professional cyclists. Jillian Bearden — who identifies as a transgender woman — won the 106-mile race in 4 hours and 36 minutes, the Arizona Daily…

  • Your Money Well Spent

    Here: The National Science Foundation has spent more than $400,000 on a study that published scientific results on the “relationship between gender and glaciers.” The paper “Glaciers, gender, and science,” published in January 2016, concluded that “ice is not just ice,” urging scientists to take a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial” approach when they…

  • Is Beef Food?

    Beef is the flesh of a formerly sentient being, a dead cow.  And of course beef is edible.  For present purposes, to be edible is to be ingestible by mastication, swallowing, etc., non-poisonous,  and sufficiently nutritious to sustain human life. But is everything that is edible food?  Obviously not: your pets and your children are…

  • The Republic Repeals Itself?

    And the Left continues to melt down over the election result. A curious exercise in hyperventilation from the pen of Andrew Sullivan.  Here are a couple of gasps: In the U.S., the [populist] movement — built on anti-political politics, economic disruption, and anti-immigration fears — had something else, far more lethal, in its bag of…

  • Long Lines as ‘Voter Suppression’

    On C-SPAN this morning I watched part of a re-run of a program from last Wednesday.  A bunch of leftists were bemoaning Hillary's defeat.  One Steve Cobble uncorked a real doozy to the effect that long lines at polling places are a form of 'voter suppression.' This is too stupid to waste time refuting, but…

  • Michael Rectenwald on ‘Trigger Warnings’ and the Origin of the Alt Right

    For background, read this Inside Higher Ed article. As far as I can make out, NYU professor Michael Rectenwald  is a commie who takes issue with the trigger warning nonsense because it gives the Left a bad name.  The following from an interview in the NYU student newspaper: Michael Rectenwald: My contention is that this…

  • Anthony Esolen Under Fire at Providence College

    More proof of the collapse of American universities and Catholic universities in particular.  As a result of the abdication of authority on the part of administrators, 'Catholic' universities have become anti-Catholic leftist seminaries, hotbeds of cultural Marxism.  Am I exaggerating?  Read Rod Dreher's interview with Professor Esolen and see for yourself.  Here is the message…

  • Libtards

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  • Justice Thomas: “. . . so politically incorrect that he may not even be black.”

    Edward J. Erler, Last Chance to Defeat Political Correctness? Excerpt (exphasis added): . . . Progressive Liberals have viciously criticized Justice Clarence Thomas for refusing to represent his racial class on the Supreme Court. He sees his duty, instead, as following the rule of law and the Constitution. When the law classifies on the basis of…

  • Why Women are Under-Represented in Philosophy: A Politically Incorrect View

    TRIGGER WARNING!  Clear, critical, and independent thinking up ahead.  All girly-girls, pajama boys, and crybullies  out of the room and to their safe spaces and sandboxes.  If you play nice, Uncle Bill may serve milk and cookies. The following is excerpted from a much longer discussion with some alt-rightists/neo-reactionaries.  I am not one of them.…

  • DePaul University Bans “Unborn Lives Matter”

    Here: Reverend Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., the president of DePaul University, prevented a College Republicans poster bearing the phrase “Unborn Lives Matter” from being displayed on campus. According to Holtschneider’s open letter to the DePaul community, the poster constituted “bigotry . . . under the cover of free speech” that “provokes the Black Lives Matter…

  • Hillary on Heller: She Lied

    So what else is new?  That the sky is blue?  The trouble with Trump is that he doesn't know enough about the issues to punch back effectively when Mrs. Clinton lets loose with one of her whoppers. He let her escape several times during their third and final debate.    Sean Davis: In her answer…

  • There is no Religious Liberty Under Leftism: The Albanian Example

    Do you value religious liberty?  Then you must work to defeat Hillary Clinton, which is to say: you must vote for Donald Trump. The Left, being totalitarian, brooks no opposition and is brutal in its suppression of religion. Consider the example of Fr. Ernest Simoni: Persecution in Albania was exceptionally harsh, even for Communist Eastern…

  • Trump’s Comments: The Latest Left-Wing Hysteria

    Dennis Prager: We are regularly forced to endure a new left-wing manufactured, media-supercharged hysteria. The latest is the tsunami of horror in reaction to Donald Trump's gross and juvenile comments made in private 11 years ago. The tsunami of condemnation of his remarks is quintessential left-wing hysteria. That more than a few Republicans and conservatives…