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"After being administered a sedative, Cuckla claims to have been a victim of an act of 'metaphysical violence.' The lack of apparent physical trauma led doctors to furiously search in vain through the pages of the DSM5. 'We’re mystified,' attending physician Dr. Scott Spencer said.

Emergency rooms across the country have reported a sudden and dramatic wave of professional philosophers being admitted for strange injuries, leaving doctors baffled. One philosopher, Rebecca &#822…
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Should the NEH be defunded? Walter thinks so.

I was really encouraged by the Trump administration’s recent budget proposal because it included the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment …
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AR-15 argues that conservatives who reject equality of outcome should, for the same reasons, reject using the state to create equal opportunities.

“Equality of opportunity has seemed to many writers to be the minimal egalitarian goal, questionable (if at all) only for being too weak.” Robert Nozick, ASU, p. 235. While the left str…
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Women already have equal rights as men. So, where else can women start fighting for equality with men? Touchstone gives some suggestions.

I learned this year that International Women’s Day was March 8th thanks in large part to a number of gals on my social media platforms as well as virtue signaling men (i.e., emasculated loser…
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Neven Sesardić calls out Alain Badiou's bullshit.

“…one cannot corner me in some supposed ignorance… in the matter of the formal complexities…” —A. Badiou (2006, p. xiv) Alain Badiou is a well-known French philosopher who likes to use ideas …
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Jack Burton and AR-15 resume their review of one of the modern left's sacred texts, The New Jim Crow. If they have the patience to finish, should they take up Howard Zinn or Ta-Nehisi Coates next?

Several months ago, Rightly Considered began the task of reviewing one of the sacred texts of contemporary leftism, The New Jim Crow. We have returned during this Lenten season to chastise ourselve…
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Should Christian bakers be forced to make cakes celebrating abortions? If not, why force them to make cakes celebrating SSM?

Consider: A 20-something woman walks into a bakery named Immaculate Risings — the double entendre refers to both Jesus’ resurrection and dough’s amazing transformation while in a hot oven. Th…
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Leftist philosophers are in the habit of hiding their much bigger pile of dirty laundry while flaunting others'.

Neven Sesardic’s recent book, When Reason Goes on Holiday, provides a detailed account of the morally questionable actions undertaken in the interest of political causes by some of the most importa…
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Jack concludes his series arguing for the return of the honorable practice of dueling.

And so our series concludes (finally)…Thus far we have rehearsed themes associated with honor and defense of the same, the necessity of Rational Violence coupled with its associated constraints, j…
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Catholic Hulk has some advice for leftists and conservatives.

The political left, the forerunners and champions of the LBGT movement, further the political clout of Muslims, but Muslims, by far and large, are opposed LBGT rights, recognition and political adv…
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More leftist hypocrisy coming from Daily Nous. Surprise, surprise.

Daily Nous recently reported on a controversy surrounding philosopher Dan Demetriou (University of Minnesota, Morris). Demetriou, who describes himself as “ideologically right,” publish…
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Federal Philosopher hits on a brilliant solution for how pro-abortion animal lovers can enjoy the splendors of eating meat guilt-free!

As an avid animal rights and abortion activist, you may have been asked by a conservative, in a dishonest attempt to score rhetorical points against you, how those two positions can be consistent. …
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Leftist "philosophers" once again expose themselves as intolerant and illiberal.

Timothy Hsiao teaches philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. He’s written several papers on the moral justification for eating meat. His most recent paper offers a defense of industrial…
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Walter Montgomery's students argue against safe spaces.

Today, I bring good news. Not all millennials are little snowflakes—maybe not even a majority. At the beginning of this semester, I asked my students to a write short essay on whether they thought …
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Check out this guest post by Cornell graduate student Chad McIntosh.

Many “second amendment people,” as Trump calls them, are fond of the aphorism “Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.” This is simple common sense. But it is…
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While we're on the topic of immigration, you should check out this blog. Click and follow the links to its other posts on the current immigration crisis if you are a fan of reality.

Have we arrived? Why, one may ask, have so many leftists gone ballistic over a short stoppage on immigration from 7 terror-pron...
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Bob le flambeur considers common arguments for open borders and finds them lacking.

While our left-wing colleagues are up in arms over an executive order that is unlikely to have a significant impact on immigration to the US, it may be worth reflecting on the philosophical case fo…
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