Maverick Philosopher

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Category: Politics

  • Do Voter ID Laws Suppress the Black Vote?

    This is a MUST-SEE video.  White liberal Berkeley students express an extremely condescending attitude toward black folks, and some blacks reply. (HT and Merry Christmas to J.I.O.)  The kids actually think that significant numbers of blacks don't possess ID, don't know how to secure it, and lack access to the Internet.

  • A Warning for ‘Liberals’

    Planning a putsch?  You may get more than you bargained for.

  • Judging Trump

    Should we judge the man by his tweets or his picks?  By what he says or what he does?  Judging by their content, his tweets are injudicious; his appointments so far are outstanding and show good judgment. Here are Trump's choices for cabinet and administrative slots.

  • Russian ‘Hacking’ Claim is a Farce

    Andrew C. McCarthy

  • ‘Post-Truth’

    'Post-truth' is a silly buzz word, and therefore beloved by journalists who typically talk and write uncritically in trendy ways. There is no way to get beyond truth or to live after truth.  All of our intellectual operations are conducted under the aegis of truth. Here is one example of how we presuppose truth.  People…

  • Politics as War

    A reader sends this: A correspondent has just emailed me, completely out of the blue, to tell me that you're a “racist, islamophobe, bigot”. Thought you would like that. 😀 I like it very much except that he leaves out the remaining SIXHIRB epithets: sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, and homophobic.  But three out of seven ain't bad.…

  • A Mark of a Loser

    One mark of a loser is the inability or unwillingness to lose graciously. Why are leftists such pansies and whiny losers?  Andrew Klavan: But the left? Never mind the college snowflakes who can't even hear an idea they disagree with without retreating to a safe space. What about the adults? The New York Times, a former…

  • Hillary, Shrillary

    She lost for many reasons, despite the incredibly powerful, ruthless, and well-funded machine behind her, not to mention all the illegal and 'dead' votes she got.  And despite the fact that it was 'her turn.'  One reason was her voice.  (Via Burgess-Jackson.) Do you doubt that significant numbers of illegals and 'dead people' vote?  Then…

  • Lie or Exaggeration or Bullshit? Politics in the Age of Bullshit

    Over the weekend, Donald Trump bragged in signature style that he “won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Lefties are calling the statement a lie.  But it is no such thing.  In the typical case, a lie is a false statement made with the intention to deceive.  In…

  • College-Educated or College-Indoctrinated?

    Lefties like to point out that the college-educated favored Hillary over Trump.  But so what?  Apart from the STEM disciplines, the colleges and universities of the land have become leftist seminaries, hotbeds of political correctness, and centers of Higher Infantilization.  They have strayed far from their original charter. So of course the college-indoctrinated will favor…

  • Philosophical Aspects of the Trump-Clinton Contest

    Here is an invited essay of mine at Rightly Considered.  I am told that RC is snagging around 2,000 page views per day, which is very good for such a young weblog.  It is infuriating all the usual suspects. My contribution is the first in a series of reflections on the presidential election. 

  • Wiggle Room for NeverTrumpers

    Feeling chagrined at being on the wrong side of history, you Never Trump conservatives could conceivably argue that by 'Never Trump' you just meant that you would never support him in his presidential bid, not that if he became president you would not support or even embrace him.

  • How Religious Americans Voted

    Here.  Note how many so-called Catholics  voted for Hillary of the abortion party. And once again we find confirmed the puzzling preponderance of Jewish support for the Dems. 

  • The Irrelevance of the Popular Vote: The Other Reason

    True, Hillary won the popular vote.  But the popular vote is irrelevant.  One reason you already know: the President is elected by the members of the Electoral College.  The other reason is explained by Jonathan Adler: In the election concluded Tuesday, Hillary Clinton received more popular votes than Trump. This does not mean, however, that…

  • 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…