I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

Lia Thomas, when he swam for the men’s team at Penn during the 2018–19 season, was ranked 65th nationally in the 500-freestyle.117 Now, competing as a woman against women, he’s blowing away Olympic medalists.

The surest sign of a decadent culture isn’t its readiness to license varieties of personal abuse and degradation, or even its elevation of immediate pleasure over long-term sobriety. The surest sign of cultural decadence is a readiness to reject as hateful what is demonstrably true.

Let me tell you the many ways you are oppressed so that you may be a river to the unwashed masses.

if you control for frequency of interactions—that is, if you take into account the fact that black people are far more likely, per capita, to be contacted by cops—you find that the police are no more likely to use lethal force against black suspects than against white suspects.

Thus, the next time a humanities or social science professor steps to a podium and begins to blather about how uncertainty is a feature of the universe, and thus subjectivism is the way of all sophisticates, you may want to ask him if that means Planck’s constant isn’t constant.

Notice, however, that Einstein isn’t arguing for the plurality of truth. Rather, he is saying that from any specific position, there will still be one and only one true measurement of the motion of an object, and that that one true measurement is calculable and in no sense open to negotiation.

On the contrary, the observation that black and Hispanic kids perform poorly on a particular test more likely suggests that there’s something lacking in their educational preparation that will be difficult to overcome.

If it’s all a free and fluid nonbinary choice of gender and sexual partners, a choice to have sex exclusively with the same sex would not be an expression of our identity, but a form of sexist bigotry, would it not?

ask yourself this: In the last several millennia of recorded human endeavor, can you name one writer, one artist, one thinker, one remotely interesting, original, or memorable person who, as a young adult, wanted to know less about the world?