We Need Two Vulnerable Parties

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i'm always quoting john stuart mill that we we need two viable parties. We have a duopoli here, particularly in america, because it's win or take all. So you end up with two parties that's omeone like a trump. He just, i like a good, central, modest republican party. I'm not a republican, butb but i want them to be a good sullid to push back against the far left. And that, when you throw trump into it, it's, it's like the republicans ave lost over here. People have to go the other direction. Maybe they go too far. That would be too much ow

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?

In this wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous.