Facts of life
On the earlier post regarding our cheatin' hearts, my boyfriend -- my boyfriend! -- writes: "If women think about cheating more when they're fertile, and men are
always fertile... well, you can do the math yourself."
Razib, I'm not so sure the liberal tendency to reject the idea of objective facts is a huge problem anymore. Sure, it was during the
postmodernist heyday of the '90s, but I thought the death of postmodernism was being widely reported. (Thank God.) And you could argue that the Right also rejects the idea of objective facts in certain domains -- with apologies for my predictability, creationism springs to mind -- and has for longer than the Left. I'm not sure a reactionary approach to the concept of science, much less the facts science produces, is exclusive to either party anymore. Paging
Virginia Postrel...
Clarification: The folks on the Right I'm referring to are not the creation science/ID folks, but those who say we can't know what happened at the beginning of life, since no one was there except God -- and therefore we have to accept his, er, eyewitness account. Whether said account constitutes objective fact for these people is a complicated question. I'd argue they see it as fact, but don't really accept the distinction between objective and subjective. Which, of course, is essentially what the postmodernists did.