Category: Human Exceptionalism

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 25, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Kendi: Election of Obama Harmful to Racial Equity

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 25, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Ibram X. Kendi is the intellectual leader of the new “anti-racist” movement. Don’t let the name fool you. Anti-racist does not really want to end the great evil, but redirect racial distinctions and wield them invidiously against people not of color. As Kendi has written, “The only remedy to racial discrimination is antiracist discrimination.” Swell. Read More ›

People raising fist with unfocused background in a pacifist protest against racism demanding justice

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 24, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

The Perils of Declaring Racism a ‘Public Health Emergency’

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 24, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

With COVID-19 apparently on the wane, the technocrats who eagerly seized upon the pandemic to justify hobbling American liberty now advocate declaring racism a “public health emergency.” Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Boycott the All-Star Game!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

In a brazen act of cultural imperialism, Major League Baseball withdrew the 2021 All Star-Game from Atlanta.Why make such a drastic change mere months before the great game? COVID? No. A failure of Atlanta to adequately prepare for the game? No. MLB flexed its financial muscles to punish Georgia for passing a voting rights law that did not suit the sensibilities of it Woke leadership. Read More ›

Black Lives Matter Protest in Auburn, WA (June 2, 2020)

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 9, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Why We Can’t Have ‘an Honest Conversation about Race’

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 9, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

We always hear that the U.S. has to engage “a deep and honest conversation about race.” That’s good. We need to work out how to move past our nation’s greatest historical failing. But “conversation” doesn’t mean what it used to. Read More ›

book with burning pages on a concrete surface

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 24, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

An Amazon Book Burning

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 24, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Book burning has always been a crucial ingredient of totalitarianism. In the 1930s the German Student Union infamously made bonfires from books considered antithetical to National Socialism. Similarly, the zealots who executed Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution destroyed books opposed to the diktats of Chinese Communism. Read More ›

First Lady Melania Trump applauds as gallery guest Rush Limbaugh is recognized by President Donald J. Trump during the State of the Union address Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Limbaugh received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the address.

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 17, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Rush Limbaugh’s Life-Affirming Strength

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 17, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

I have been most impressed over the years by Limbaugh’s strength of character, a crucial leadership attribute in woefully short supply at a time of failing institutions and callow public personalities. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 13, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Big Tech Now the ‘Fourth Branch of Government?’

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 13, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Axios’s Felix Salmon has called Big Tech “the fourth branch of government” because of its recent concerted and successful shutdown of President Trump’s ability to communicate on social media. He seems pleased. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Parler is Silenced

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

The social media company Parler—which is a French word meaning “to speak”—was mugged and left for dead by Big Tech last week in what appears to be the start of a cultural offensive aimed at stifling conservative advocacy in our country’s public discourse. Read More ›

^{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Empathy — The Foundation of Human Exceptionalism?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Much of the interest of thinking about intelligent design lies in understanding what a human being is. We are unique, but why? What or who made us so? Why does that matter? And how, exactly, are we unique? Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 4, 2020
Animal Welfare, Human Exceptionalism}

World Animal Day and Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 4, 2020
Animal Welfare, Human Exceptionalism}

October 4 was World Animal Day. Good news: The event was not steeped in “animal rights,” as one might expect, but animal welfare. Read More ›