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A reply to Brian Leiter and other critics

  • Posted on September 20, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Brian Leiter, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, wrote a response to my response to Green’s idiotic post on conservatives in academia. Some of the points he makes echoes what other people have said on Daily Nous, where…

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It’s not hard for conservatives to be on campus because they’re stupid, it’s hard because you are

  • Posted on September 19, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Leslie Green, professor of philosophy at Oxford, recently published a post on his blog called “Why it is hard to be a campus conservative”. I said elsewhere that I have rarely come across anything that was both condescending and stupid to…

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  • Sociology

The reality of police violence in the US

  • Posted on September 15, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I wrote a post a few months ago that generated a lot of controversy and was heavily criticized. I wrote it after the officer who killed Philando Castile was acquitted, which prompted everyone to lament the so-called epidemic of unarmed…

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  • Politics

DACA isn’t about DACA

  • Posted on September 14, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I was going to publish my post about police violence in the US today, but Schumer and Pelosi released a statement about DACA last night, so I figured that I should make a quick point about this instead. According to…

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Links – 09/12/2017

  • Posted on September 12, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Gregory Cochran wrote a review of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond in his usual ruthless style. Some people might think that he spends too much time on Diamond’s ridiculous claim about the people of Papua New Guinea, but I…

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  • Philosophy

Google just wants to silence dissent, what it may get is civil war

  • Posted on September 7, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Yesterday, Dave Rubin, who hosts a popular talk show, announced on Twitter that Youtube, which is owned by Google, had more or less demonetized his entire catalogue.If you don’t know Rubin, he is a very mild classical liberal who endorsed…

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Links – 09/04/2017

  • Posted on September 4, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A recent survey discussed by Eric Kaufmann here indicates that, in the West, whether one believes that it’s racist to want to restrict immigration in order to preserve one’s culture predicts whether one thinks immigration should be reduced. But I don’t…

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  • Immigration

L’évolution du profil des naissances et la théorie du grand remplacement

  • Posted on September 2, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

La théorie du grand remplacement, d’après laquelle les Français d’origine européenne sont voués à devenir une minorité en France en raison de l’immigration de masse, reste un tabou. Les médias présentent systématiquement cette théorie comme un fantasme d’extrême-droite et l’attaquent…

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A politically incorrect guide to affirmative action

  • Posted on August 30, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

During the controversy about James Damore’s infamous memo, which I briefly discussed here, I read a lot of nonsense from a lot of people, who clearly don’t understand much about this debate. If you have been following the debate about…

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Postcards from the end of America by Linh Dinh

  • Posted on August 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, who has been traveling around the US for years, in order to take pictures, talk to ordinary people and write about their life. He writes short reports about what he’s seen and the people…

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