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		<title>Diversity Fatigue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the congressional debates on the 1924 Immigration Act, Representative William Vaile of Colorado, a prominent immigration restrictionist, argued that if there is any changing to be done [to our country], we will do it ourselves: Let me emphasize here that the restrictionists of Congress do not claim that the “Nordic” race, or even the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectuals and Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell defines an intellectual as one whose work begins and ends with ideas — which, John Derbyshire points out, excludes many — engineers, architects, surgeons, lawyers, generals — who make a living by applying their intelligence: The only validation process the anointed will submit their ideas to is &#8220;the approval of peers.&#8221; When rigorous [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Survival of the Most Pious?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darwin noted that a belief in “all-pervading spiritual agencies” is well-nigh universal among human populations. There are two current theories to explain the origins and persistence of religious belief, John Derbyshire reminds us: One says that religion is an accidental by-product of our extremely complicated cognitive equipment. Being able to tell when an object is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Empirical Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The empirical style of thinking is a minority taste, John Derbyshire reminds us: The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the approval of those around us; we want to get even with that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep-Seated Attitudes</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/deep-seated-attitudes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep-seated attitudes, like the colonial-bumpkin image that the English have had of Americans for 300 years and more, are very resistant to change, John Derbyshire notes — especially when they are self-flattering: The English will go on believing that they are Athens (ancient, cultured, wise) to our Rome (brash, militaristic, dumb), though the current truth [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The signs are not good</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/the-signs-are-not-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The signs are not good, says John Derbyshire: It&#8217;s tough getting through life by your own efforts in a world as crowded and sophisticated as this one. Postindustrial society has huge surpluses of wealth that can be harvested by the state and handed out as benefits. There&#8217;s a squeaky-wheel bias to it all — groups [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Warm Bath of Political Correctness</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/a-warm-bath-of-political-correctness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orwell described the traditional boarding-school education given to upper-class English boys as &#8220;five years in a lukewarm bath of snobbery.&#8221; John Derbyshire describes a modern university education as a warm bath of Political Correctness: I upgraded the metaphor from lukewarm to warm because of the crude force and intimidation that is used when ramming PC [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Empty Attributes</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/empty-attributes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As preposterous as political correctness seems to John Derbyshire, who grew up in the monocultural England of the 1950s, his children have completely internalized it: My daughter, age 14 and brighter than average, reacts with horror — instinctive horror, from internalized revulsion — if I comment in any way at all on anyone&#8217;s group identity. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed a Stage</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/missed-a-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pessimist John Derbyshire feels that he must have missed a stage of development: I was at a friend&#8217;s house some years ago just before Christmas. My friend had a daughter, a sweet child about four years old. They were fixing little Christmas stockings to the edge of a shelf over the fireplace. The stockings didn&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Inoculated against intellectual snobbery</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/inoculated-against-intellectual-snobbery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Derbyshire explains how he got inoculated against intellectual snobbery: I belong to that generation of Westerners from low-class backgrounds who got access to higher education far beyond what was available to our parents. We spent our teens and our twenties with the unhappy understanding that our parents, whom we loved and admired, didn&#8217;t actually [&#8230;]]]></description>
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