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29:36  /  1:01:09 #racism   #religion   #politics Has Anti-Racism Become A New Religion? | John McWhorter 1,522 views • Premiered 23 hours ago 243 1 SHARE SAVE Coleman Hughes 4.7K subscribers SUBSCRIBE In this episode, Coleman talks to John McWhorter, an American academic and linguist, on the notion of anti-racism, the Alex McNab saga, religion and more. For entire exchange:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPiNiTwf5bM

Published on  February 23, 2017 On Meaning, Identity Politics and Bias in the Academy — An Interview with Clay Routledge written by  Claire Lehmann Meet Clay Routledge, a social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University. Professor Routledge studies such things as intergroup relations and how people create meaning in their lives. He has over 90 scholarly papers and has authored the book “Nostalgia: A Psychological Resource .” I discovered Professor Routledge on Twitter, where he tweets interesting observations about the state of orthodoxy on campus and in the broader culture. I thought it would be useful to capture some of his insights in a more in-depth form — what follows is an interview with Professor Routledge for Quillette. Hi Clay, thanks for chatting to  Quillette.  Before we get into other topics, what do you research and how did you become interested in that area? I mainly study psychological motives. And much of my work is on t

written by  Clay Routledge Everyone seems to be talking about meaning at the moment. Many appreciate that our lives need some kind of existential structure—cultural worldviews, social roles, and goals that give us purpose. Some speculate that we are suffering a crisis of meaning in the modern Western world for a variety of reasons including increased social alienation, automation, and the decline of religion. Others believe that meaning comes from within the individual, that we can abandon traditional beliefs, duties, and attachments and fashion our own existential framework. Some argue that meaning isn’t really that important at all and that we should instead focus solely on practical concerns such as physical health, economics, education, and the environment. As a behavioral scientist who has spent nearly two decades conducting research in existential psychology, I have some thoughts on why we should care about meaning and how modern life challenges our search for it. Read