Hey English Instructors – ‘Take a History Class and Learn about Free Speech’
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Recently, Oklahoma University contributed their own stark example of how the core values of free speech and critical thinking are being misunderstood and misapplied in the spheres of what we call ‘higher education’.
Hey English Instructors – ‘Take a History Class and Learn about Free Speech’
Hyperbole on the Loose! The Left Cries Wolf and is Unprepared to Recognize the Real Thing
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When you’ve branded every dissenting voice–no matter how mild, with the harshest possible labels, what vocabulary do you have available to point out the actual wolf when it comes out of the forest?
Hyperbole on the Loose! The Left Cries Wolf and is Unprepared to Recognize the Real Thing
Raquel Rosario Sánchez, a feminist writer, campaigner and researcher, is the most recent recipient of the Plebity Free Speech Fund.
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We are proud to support Raquel with a grant from the Free Speech Fund, and we are always accepting applications from anyone who needs material support after being punished for their speech or subject to a hostile work environment due to their speech or beliefs.
Raquel Rosario Sánchez, a feminist writer, campaigner and researcher, is the most recent recipient of the Plebity Free Speech Fund.
Remembering Regan Russell: Looking Directly at Animal Agriculture
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For well over a year, all eyes have been on the pandemic. While we have been singularly focused on the pandemic, another global tragedy has been taking place, though this tragedy has been happening for many years, its existence well-known,...
Remembering Regan Russell: Looking Directly at Animal Agriculture
A Leftist Scholar on Populism Abandons Foundational Principles of Free Speech and Class
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If anyone is wondering just how deep is the left’s abandonment of its most long-standing and foundational values, namely free speech and class analysis, one need look no further than this book about populism: Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic by Columbia Law School postdoc...
A Leftist Scholar on Populism Abandons Foundational Principles of Free Speech and Class
Plebity Interviewed by The Sidebar
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This week, Mark White of Plebity had the chance to meet with Scott Costen, Nova Scotia based journalist at The Sidebar to discuss our Free Speech Fund and the political vision behind Plebity. The Sidebar is a progressive, independent media platform that is part...
Plebity Interviewed by The Sidebar
Populism: The New Red Scare
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Populism does indeed have a set of prevailing principles that characterizes it. These principles cut across all political cloths, often garnering support from left- and right-wing proponents. Some of the basic principles include: circumventing power from Wall Street, ending corporate welfare and crony capitalism, ending mass surveillance programs, ending...
Populism: The New Red Scare
When Populism Meant Collective Strength Against a Rigged System
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The word populism gets thrown around these days to mean many different things. But the populist farmers revolt of the 1880s has so much to teach us today.
When Populism Meant Collective Strength Against a Rigged System
Solidarity Wins Out Over Intolerance and Cancel Culture
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Last week Plebity awarded its most recent Free Speech Fund grant to Valerie Pelletier. Plebity thanks Jodi Shaw for her generous donation to our Free Speech Fund which makes our support for individuals like Valerie possible.
Solidarity Wins Out Over Intolerance and Cancel Culture
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How the Left Woke Up and Found Its Inner Anti-Semitism
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The mildest of criticisms aimed at woke theology are considered literal violence by its proponents. But at the same time, the harshest slurs and insults are completely acceptable if they are deployed against individuals who are not part of what has become a protected caste. In...
How the Left Woke Up and Found Its Inner Anti-Semitism
Arty Morty: Graham Linehan’s gender blasphemy exposes the fear that stifles the trans debate
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One side — my side — starts with the foundational assumption that everyone, trans or not, is first and foremost to be treated as an individual, no more or less equally deserving of respect than any other individual, and then builds from there. Of course I understand how...
Arty Morty: Graham Linehan’s gender blasphemy exposes the fear that stifles the trans debate
The Progress Paradox: Revisiting Steven Pinker’s Brand of Optimism
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Is the world a better place? Opinions vary, though the enduring Western-centric belief is that humankind has never had it better. This belief is commonly espoused by technologists who praise the information age for ushering in a new era of opportunity...
The Progress Paradox: Revisiting Steven Pinker’s Brand of Optimism
Want to Stop A Pandemic? Stop Eating Animals.
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Trigger moments in human history awaken us to injustice and turn the tide of public perception. What happened in Waterloo, Iowa may not have been a watershed moment but as far as human folly, it was a doozy.
Between March and mid-April 2020, as the pandemic surged, managers...
What Canada’s Church Arsons Reveal About the ‘Progressive’ Country
What Canada’s Church Arsons Reveal About the ‘Progressive’ Country