Truth, I reiterate, is a correspondence between what you think and a reality that exists independently from what you think. You arrive at truth by adjusting what you think to reality, not by expecting reality to adjust to what you think.

But Hannah-Jones’s Project, whether she realizes it or not, sits on pseudo-intellectual clouds; its raison d’être, which is to render a substantial moral judgment on American history, is therefore hopelessly compromised.

Contemporary transgender ideology is not a complement to gay rights; in some ways it is in active opposition to them.

More to the point, it is a philosophical error—specifically, Bishop Berkeley’s error—to think that real things, such as the sexual bifurcation of species, cease to exist if we don’t think about them.

So, for example, if the video feed from security cameras at the local shopping mall shows a disproportionate number of black people shoplifting, then the video feed is racist. But how can an unedited video feed be racist? What does the word mean at that point?

Kant, like Berkeley, believes that our perceptions, not things-in-themselves, are the only things we experience directly. “…everything intuited in space and time, all objects of a possible experience, are nothing but phenomena, that is, mere representations; and that these, as presented to us…have no self-subsistent existence apart from human thoug

Believe the accuser, clearly. Unless the accuser is white and the accused black, in which case disbelieve the accuser and believe that the accused is a victim of systemic racism. Or unless the accuser is male and the accused female, in which case take into account the contributions that the accused has made to her field. But if the accuser is a whi

Sexual classification is not something you get to decide, as desperately as you may wish it were. There is no natural right to overrule reality. You are what you are. Nothing more and nothing less.

To summarize: The realist says that we can know the world beyond our perceptions, and that truth consists of thinking and saying things that correspond with the state of that world. The idealist says that our perceptions are the only things we truly know, and therefore that truth cannot be a correspondence. That’s the traditional debate between rea