The novelist Virginia Woolf once said, "on or about December 1910, human character changed." (see Jackson Lears). She was kidding about the specificity of the date but in earnest about the change.

Manipulating cultural differences to divide and exploit people remains unfortunately widespread in our world today. Cultural difference reflects attempts to make sense of varied human experiences and ...

Cultural relativism’s empty notions of justice, rights, and welfare have defeated objective truths brought by realism in political argument. Philosopher Bernard Williams once said that “we all have a ...

French actress Brigitte Bardot passed away a few days ago. I did not know her well. I only know that she criticized dog meat culture as barbaric. It seems I was not alone, as her remarks were ...

In the early 1970s, renowned anthropologist Clifford Geertz published his most influential book, The Interpretation of Cultures. The book was widely read throughout the social sciences and humanities, ...

President Levin, in his “Statement in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” encouraged us to honor King by making Monday “a special day to renew our personal and collective commitment to racial, ...

The world’s nations today, both modern and otherwise, are as caught up in religious controversy as they ever were. A century ago Progressives confidently looked forward to a future when disputes about ...

Members of ethnic minorities have been viewed as being and encouraged to be stronger than their white counterparts for a long time and in numerous ways, encouraging the pre-existing hyper-independence ...

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and [for] men who claim to be bearers of an external objective truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than fascist attitudes. —Benito ...