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Tag: enlightenment

  • The central fallacy of open borders

    The usual — and, often, the only — argument of open-borders and pro-amnesty elites is that their opponents are racists, and there endeth the lesson. This is universal, from John Oliver to the Southern Poverty Law Center to HuffPost writers. This assumption, and the resulting smugness and assuredness of their own moral superiority, guides everything…

  • Anti-intellectualism and the college campus

    The greatest advancement of Western culture was not electricity or antibiotics or the computer, but the movement to which the discoverers of each owed a great debt: the Enlightenment. To oversimplify a bit, this was a grouping of philosophies that rejected magical thinking, encouraged debate, celebrated reason, and promoted individualism as a check on mindless…