Lady Gaga has reportedly rejected a $1 million offer to perform at the Republican National Convention last year.
It appears that, like her or not, this woman has principles, which is more than can be said of many Hollywood people nowadays. If you really believe in something, you have to put your money where your mouth is. If you believe in marriage equality, you don't do anything to support a party that has such a strong position against it. I think we can all learn from this.
Doing sociology and philosophy in real time by looking at developments in contemporary Western politics and culture, from a Moral Libertarian perspective. My mission is to stop the cultural systemist left and the authoritarian right from destroying the West's Enlightenment traditions.
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Around 4 or 5 years ago, I became increasingly frustrated at how 'the left' was changing. There was a rapid increase in identity pol...
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The illiberal left is obsessed with deconstruction. For the illiberal left, every part of the status quo, every structure and every institut...
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Firstly, we need to ask the question 'what is liberalism'. Contrary to popular belief, not everything that sounds 'progressive&...