Politics & Society
The promise of social mobility is broken for many people. This makes it tempting to blame meritocracy, claiming that the ideal merely serves to uphold an unjust system. But if taken seriously, this remedy would have disastrous effects. A world in which top positions are not even supposed to go to the most deserving would […]
What’s confusing about the woke movement is that it expresses traditional left-wing emotions: empathy for the marginalized, indignation at the plight of the oppressed, determination that historical wrongs should be righted. Those emotions, however, are derailed by a range of theoretical assumptions that ultimately undermine them. Theory is such a nebulous and trendy concept that […]
Även vår politiska miljö har börjat degenerera till ett ovärdigt spektakel. Från falukorvsviftande till helikopterpresskonferenser och trollarméer är vi på väg mot ett scenario där jippo och gyckel alltmer ersätter substans och innehåll, där viljan att regera trumfar samhällsbygget. Anti-intellektualismen är utbredd i vårt land. Skepsis mot experter och forskare blir allt vanligare … Vi […]
Under året som gått har pro-palestinska demonstrationer hållits varje vecka i Malmö. För några dagar sedan publicerade Sydsvenskan en granskning av dessa demonstrationer och kunde avslöja att demonstranter — på arabiska — uppmanar till terrorstöd och fortsatt krig. Detta har tydligen inte fallit en del av demonstranterna på läppen. I torsdags sökte man därför upp […]
. Judith Butler’s theory of identity rests on the idea that there is nothing between the Scylla of the metaphysical ‘modernist’ subject and the Charybdis of the totally deconstructed identity where the subject becomes nothing but a fictitious fantasy. But this can’t be right. The social constructivist anti-essentialism is unsatisfactory and ends up in an […]
Throughout European history the idea of the human being has been expressed in contradistinction to the animal. The latter’s lack of reason is the proof of human dignity. So insistently and unanimously has this antithesis been recited … that few other ideas are so fundamental to Western anthropology. The antithesis is acknowledged even today. The behaviorists […]