Heidelminicast: Orwell Contra “Orthodoxies”

by Heidelcast on January 11, 2023 | Comment

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A Kansas Supreme Court Justice On The State Of Free Speech At KU Law

by Heidelblog on December 21, 2022 | Comment

So you will understand why I was disappointed to hear from KU Law students who recently came to me to express concern over administration actions surrounding a lunch-hour event sponsored by the student chapter of the Federalist Society. My understanding, from participants, . . . Continue reading →

New In Print: Stella Morabito, The Weaponization of Loneliness

How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer

by Heidelblog on October 12, 2022 | 5 Comments

Just out today from Stella Morabito, The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer from Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press. The publisher writes, Do you keep your opinions to yourself because you’re afraid people will . . . Continue reading →

The Dynamics Of Conformity Lead To Death

by Heidelblog on June 28, 2022

Everybody needs to learn about the dynamics of conformity. Blatant censorship, hostility to free speech, and campaigns to demonize mainstream American views were all unthinkable scenarios for most Americans just a few years ago. But here we are. When we start self-censoring . . . Continue reading →

When Elite Law School Students Reject Free Speech In Principle And Practice

by R. Scott Clark on March 23, 2022 6 Comments

The people who dominate American public life come from a few elite schools. Yale Law School (YLS) is one of those institutions. Continue reading →

Trueman: What To Do With Dead Sinners Redux?

by Heidelblog on January 26, 2022 | 1 Comment

Cancel culture shows no signs of abatement. The Spectator in Britain ended the year speculating on whether comedy itself will now be a thing of the past. Cancel culture is incompatible with comedy and humor. Meanwhile, the venomous reactions to those who . . . Continue reading →

Shrier: One Need Not Be A Troll To Find Oneself At The Center Of Controversy. One Need Only Refuse To Submit To The Mob

by R. Scott Clark on December 9, 2021

I began writing a few op-eds for our local Jewish paper, one of which was spotted by a Wall Street Journal editor, who invited me to submit to the Wall Street Journal. I did, and in the course of that year, published . . . Continue reading →

Wilentz: Taking Down Jefferson Is A Symbolic Take Down Of The Declaration

by R. Scott Clark on October 27, 2021 | 4 Comments

Removal of the David D’Angers statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall would be a direct attack on a symbol of the democratic values New Yorkers hold dear. The statue specifically honors Jefferson for his greatest contribution to America, indeed, to humankind: . . . Continue reading →

Matt Taibbi On The State Of Free Speech In The USA

by R. Scott Clark on September 2, 2021 | 2 Comments

The guests for NPR’s just-released On The Media episode about the dangers of free speech included Andrew Marantz, author of an article called, “Free Speech is Killing Us”; P.E. Moskowitz, author of “The Case Against Free Speech”; Susan Benesch, director of the . . . Continue reading →

Medical School Professors Denying The Reality Of Biological Sex?

by R. Scott Clark on September 1, 2021 | 2 Comments

During a recent endocrinology course at a top medical school in the University of California system, a professor stopped mid-lecture to apologize for something he’d said at the beginning of class. “I don’t want you to think that I am in any . . . Continue reading →

This Is A Trap

by R. Scott Clark on July 17, 2021 | 17 Comments

Dear pastors and elders. No matter how well intended, I'm rather afraid that your words are not always heard the way you think. Here, let me translate.(If you'd like to educate yourself, you can start here: https://t.co/U1lM9kfHTF) pic.twitter.com/AWoCL40zMi — Greg Johnson | . . . Continue reading →

After Independence Day: The State Of Free Speech In The USA

by R. Scott Clark on July 6, 2021 | 1 Comment

One hundred and forty-six people in Halifax, Nova Scotia wait on a list to borrow a library book. A question hangs over them: Will activists let them read it? The book is mine — Irreversible Damage — and it is an investigation . . . Continue reading →

On The Etymological Fallacy, Semantics, And Defining Reformed

by R. Scott Clark on March 31, 2021 | 4 Comments

I have been thinking a bit about the etymological fallacy, which seeks to define words and other things by their origin.

Everything Is A Construct

by R. Scott Clark on March 2, 2021 3 Comments

The deconstructionists have a point: everything created is a construct. Continue reading →

Critical Theory Is A New Species Of Gnosticism

by R. Scott Clark on February 22, 2021 | 6 Comments

Now, what Voegelin saw in these ideologies is manifestly present in Critical Race Theory and the rest of the “woke” insanity now spreading like a cancer through the body politic. But it is also to be found in certain tendencies coming from . . . Continue reading →

In A Shocking About Face Some Americans Want To Go Back To The Pre-Civil Rights Era

by R. Scott Clark on February 19, 2021 | 3 Comments

I ask that Smith College stop reducing my personhood to a racial category. Stop telling me what I must think and feel about myself. Stop presuming to know who I am or what my culture is based upon my skin color. Stop . . . Continue reading →

Of Luther, Limbaugh, And Losers (Relax, It’s A Joke)

by R. Scott Clark on February 18, 2021 | 7 Comments

On this date in 1546 Martin Luther went to be with our Savior, Jesus. Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh died and we hope that he too was received into the loving arms of the Savior. Both men were in desperate need of the unconditional . . . Continue reading →

Pruitt: A Plea To The PCA To Avoid The Both The Meat And The Bones Of Critical Theory

by R. Scott Clark on February 5, 2021

If you care to read the architects of Critical Theory—Benjamin, Horkheimer, Fromm, Adorno, Marcuse, etc.— you will find that their project was animated in large part by a desire to undermine Christianity and its moral and philosophical norms. They believed these norms . . . Continue reading →

Orwell: On Opposing Hitler At The Price Of Accepting Stalin

by R. Scott Clark on January 22, 2021 | 2 Comments

Secondly there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people. On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at the price of accepting Stalin. Most of them are perfectly ready for dictatorial . . . Continue reading →

On “Safetyism”

by R. Scott Clark on December 25, 2020 | 6 Comments

But these same scenes present an affront to the organs of social control. There would seem to be an inherent tension between the spirit of play and “safetyism” (I parse this tension more fully in my book Why We Drive, which will . . . Continue reading →

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