HOW THE INTERNET HAS CREATED A SWAMP OF VERY LOUD SHEEP

by Ann Sterzinger

If you’re a digital native, you probably have no idea what genuine loneliness is. Before you get off my lawn, let me finesse that: back during the analog age, if you were a freak or a weirdo, you were a freak or a weirdo. Period.

THE DEATH OF SEX

by Duns Scotus

If there is a problem, it is only logical to yearn for its solution. If your house is on fire, who would not wish for the flames to be doused? If you have a disease, who would not crave an appropriate antidote, even if there were none available. A problem always implies a solution, even a hypothetical one, and even when the solution is worse than the problem, or the cure worse than the disease – that too is simply a problem calling for its own solution.

One of the most intractable problems of humanity is sexuality and its various aspects.

Firstly, it has been essential to human propagation, and for this reason it has been exempt from any truly radical critique – except on the lunatic fringe. Secondly, it has been associated with some of the highest and noblest aspects of human nature, and inextricably intertwined with them. When purified, rarefied, and sublimated, the crude sexual instinct becomes the foundation of such laudable elements of human nature as chivalry, family feeling, masculine honour, and even feminine chastity. Indeed, many of our traditional virtues have developed in symbiosis with – or more accurately in direct opposition to – our sexual natures. To strike at sex, therefore, is to a certain extent to strike at humanity.

PCU: HUMAN NATURE IS NO EXCUSE

                                                     

Sally Mason, President of the University of Iowa

A year ago, we chronicled the travails of a university president who ran afoul of the very PC-cultural Marxian Stasi-esque thought-Gestapo that he and his kind have helped to create on American college campuses.

Now, it's happened again, on a different campus, albeit in a far more bizarre form: