You Can't Make Your Own Truth (But I Can)

"It's postmodernism as intellectual radicalism - if you're on the Left politically you have to believe in all of this. There are other traditions of being left-wing which respect the facts, which don't believe the world is simply what we believe it to be, that think if you're going to make political arguments, you have to have evidence to support them. I want to reinstate that kind of rigorous, realistic Left liberalism. Postmodernism is addling the brain and wasting the time of some our brightest young people."

-- Gavin Kitching, self-professed "left-wing" professor (and author of The Trouble With Theory) for The Australian

These kids today, I tell you.