This may come as a surprise to those who developed their opinion about it, not by reading the memo itself but by absorbing accounts of it in the popular press.
This can only go on for so long before people push back.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has said he will “be out there strongly campaigning for a Yes vote” in the upcoming marriage equality postal ballot.
These common complaints might contain more than a kernel of truth, but centrism doesn’t need to be dull or incoherent.
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Progressives should remember that civilisation is not a science laboratory.
News and information thus become weaponized and aimed against the very institutions and values that free speech was supposed to protect.
Most people think of Title IX in relation to women’s access to college sports, but in fact it mandates gender equity in all aspects of higher education.
For Aristides, Rome was the ultimate polis: the dispenser of just government, and through its unique constitution the embodiment of principled republicanism.
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During his 2015 speech at a Boston mosque, U.S. President Barack Obama said: “And we can’t suggest that Islam itself is at the root of the problem. That betrays our values.”
Like many practices, there are benefits as well as costs: meat from factory farms is cheaper than meat from free-range animals, often about half the price.
Many Russian people lived through the Soviet experience. Not so for the Confederacy.
The mantra implies that if FGM did have health benefits, it wouldn’t be so bad after all.
The message is loud and clear: sugar is bad, government regulation is good, and now we have the science to prove it.