Originally published on Counter-Currents: Whenever we accept certain axioms as true, we bar ourselves from accepting certain conclusions which contradict the axioms. For example, if we accept the axioms that…
"Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never time wasted." — Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian I was told earlier today that "a debate for debate's sake is masturbation…
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The following is an excerpt from my upcoming essay-book Transgenerational Ethics. Keep an eye out for it on my Amazon author page, it will be out later this summer. The whole…
I don't think I've ever listened to a debate and come away with a stronger feeling of having just wasted time than after listening to the Munk Debate on Political…
Back in January of 2016, I said that I would be voting for Trump for one reason, and that was for the preservation of the culture of free speech. To…
The fearless activism of the curiously well-covered David Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, has resulted in exactly what he wanted. The school is…
Markus "Count Dankula" Meechan has just been convicted of "grossly offensive" hate speech, for the crime of teaching his girlfriend's dog to respond excitedly to "gas the jews," and to…
People who dismiss Marxism in absolute terms do so at their own risk. As a philosophy, it would not have attracted the fanatical devotion of millions of people were there…
Here's a puzzle: what's wrong with Slavoj Zizek's argument for censorship? I like censorship, but what kind of censorship? Not ‘the office, you get imprisoned,’ but censorship which is a…
UPDATE: I have retracted the view I expressed in this piece, in light of further information. To me, Carl "Sargon of Akkad" Benjamin is much like Christopher Hitchens: I don't…