About
After this course, you will have a quick and reliable introduction to why there is so much finger-wagging denunciation and just plain bad manners in so much discourse today—from the highest levels of academia to your last Thanksgiving dinner. “Just do your own thing” nowadays gives off a faintly nostagic air. Social media, political discourse, and even conversations at the dinner table all tend toward the categorical and confrontational. Whence this weird and widespread kind of certainty, with ordinary people freely disputing with experts of all kinds and wagging their fingers at everyone who disagrees? Welcome to the New Moralism.