Larry Liu

The leftist worldview is an inversion of reality. An ontological and teleological inversion.

Imagine being so narcissistic and deluded that you'd say something like this in front of a crowd because you think it makes you sound wise and virtuous

Nobody tells you this, but if you’re speaking an uncomfortable truth, you will find that it’s much easier to convince founders of billion-dollar companies, Nature-published scientists, and other elite realists than it is to convince any “normal” person around you

The female ethos can be summarized as “the crying infant is always right.” The problem with extending this framework to politics is that the crying adult isn’t

Some fields do research while others do "research." I recall a snarky response from a Harvard professor in the 1920s, describing the Education department there as "an intellectual kitten that deserves to be drowned."

Ego sum via, vēritās et vīta — “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

The rise and fall of wokeness: DEI commitments in corporate securities disclosures filed with the SEC. To me this seems a trailing indicator; most other measures of wokeness take off well before 2019 and peak in 2020 or 2021. But the shape! That's what a moral fashion looks like.