Dagny Express

After a good discussion in which I list the thousands of people whose lives in the past week have been snuffed out due to Islam inspired violence, people will inform me that the bible has violence too, you know. Apparently, this is to cause me to reassess my belief (or rather, my observation) regarding “Islam-inspired violence”. For if the Bible contains violence, and the Qur’an contains violence, then it can’t be Islam that is the source of all this violence. It has to be something else.

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A few weeks ago I wrote Definitions Matter Part 1 about the term non-judgmentalism. This week I have turned my sights to a classical liberal principle, tolerance.

If I had a nickel for every time I was accused of lacking tolerance I would retire early. This word has grown over the years and mutated into something it was never meant to be. Tolerance was first used to describe the ability to endure pain and physical hardship. But it was quickly acknowledged that physical pain is not the only thing humans have to endure. We also have to endure the pain of people disagreeing with us, and this can sometimes be far more difficult.

As the Brexit vote draws near, people from all over the world are weighing in on what the British population should do. So it came as no surprise that Barack Obama wrote an op-ed piece in The Telegraph, calling strongly for Britain to remain a member of the EU.

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Austria has just finished its first round of elections for the position of president. Unlike America, the presidential position is more ceremonial and less dictatorial. But this does not mean the results of the first round are not fascinating for anyone who cares about the strange politics that are on foot in Europe.

In November 2014, Sabrina Elderly, wrote an article for the Rolling stones magazine that has since became a case study for incompetent journalism. The article, “A rape on campus” describes (as its name would suggest) a horrific gang rape that occurred at the university of Virginia. The story was rather fantastical, but not so fantastical as to have no consequences for real life people. Thus, after the public began to doubt the veracity of the story, Rolling Stones magazine hired on the Columbia University School of Journalism to investigate whether Elderly made any journalistic errors.