The Alt-Right Isn't Right
Conservatism is the belief in advancing ideas, the alt-right believes in advancing a race.
Max Diamond contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2017 and 2018, writing about free speech, intellectual movements, and the cultural debates surrounding the alt-right and political correctness. His pieces explored the philosophical dimensions of contemporary controversies, including the Google-James Damore dispute and the emergence of the 'Intellectual Dark Web.'
Conservatism is the belief in advancing ideas, the alt-right believes in advancing a race.
It's not that I agreed with their ideas. It's that they encouraged me to think.
The current scandal between Google and James Damore presents our culture with a choice: Should we safeguard opportunity for individuals simply because they are individuals, or limit individual opportunity in order to pursue the advancement of groups? It's a question as old as liberal democracy…
Bill C-16, which recently received Royal Assent and will soon become law, is the most recent bill to threaten free speech and to mandate that individuals adopt a social constructionist philosophy of gender. Those who refuse to use gender neutral pronouns such as “they” or “zi” and “zir,” or who…