Civilization

 

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that, in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last 2,000 years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

- Kenneth Clark, Civilization

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Films About Communism: A Series

 

Find Something Beautiful Today

 

Check It Out

 

An Ideology Leading to Murder

The core tenet of repressive academic safetyism—that officially designated student victim groups are dangerously vulnerable to meanie “haters”—is laughably delusional. There have been few more pampered and richly endowed individuals than early twenty-first century American students. Yet they are encouraged to think of themselves as “unsafe” by the very adults who should be leading them toward a grounded understanding of reality. And that is because the adults on campus are even more invested than students in maintaining the hegemony of leftism—a belief system enabled in part by the conceits of fragility and dangerous “haters.”

Read all of Heather Mac Donald's essay in City Journal.

Hmm

 

Je Suis Charlie

 The Free Press on the larger significance of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

We fear his assassination represents a watershed moment for free expression in this country. We worry that his murder will have a profound chilling effect—that people will shy away from open discussion, that they will avoid honest debate, and that they will turn away from sticking their neck out for fear that engaging with their fellow citizens might mean an engraved bullet will be meant for them.

We must not let that happen.

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Life Is Not a Computer Game

 Douglas Murray writing in the New York Post. An excerpt:

You might say that anybody could have done that.

But anybody didn’t, and anybody doesn’t.

And in any case, Charlie Kirk was not just anybody.

He didn’t just give people a platform and debate his ideas and theirs.

He listened.