Julian Adorney

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Affective Polarization Is Making Us Dumber

11/03/2023 Mises Wire Julian Adorney

Last month, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University announced that it was laying off almost all of its staff, in spite of having received almost $55 million in funds...

Opposing Critical Race Theory Doesn’t Make You a “White Supremacist”

06/02/2023 Mises Wire Julian Adorney

Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founders of critical race theory (CRT), recently decried what she called the “war on wokeness” (by which she seems to mean a war on CRT). According to her, this “war on...

Cancel Culture: The Digital Panopticon

04/04/2023 Mises Wire Julian Adorney

The panopticon is a hypothetical surveillance and control system first imagined by philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the eighteenth century. It’s envisioned as a tool to control the behavior of a large...

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Affective Polarization Is Making Us Dumber

11/20/2023 Julian Adorney

One way to combat intellectual atrophy is to learn from Ibram Kendi’s mistakes and do the opposite.

Opposing Critical Race Theory Doesn’t Make You a “White Supremacist”

06/17/2023 Julian Adorney

Much of critical race theory and “antiracism” is aimed at pulling people apart, not bringing them together. To oppose such theories and practices is not racist in itself.

Cancel Culture: The Digital Panopticon

04/19/2023 Julian Adorney

Like Bentham's panopticon, modern cancel culture is built upon fear and online bullying, making people police their own thoughts.

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