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We should remember that the creation of knowledge is generally a positive sum game. When practitioners in one field make progress and gain insight, all fields stand to benefit.
There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear.
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion.
We must use these distinctions with care. Labels are most effective when used as a scalpel, not a hammer. Feminologists should not be ridiculed or insulted, but convinced.
It’s time to wake up and smell the dark-roast Kremlin coffee. I’m talking dark-roast as in a steaming cup of pitch-black, irredeemable evil splashed in your face right after you smell it.
To get an idea of what’s in store for us next, Australians would do well to look at the debate over gender identity in Canada, where things have gotten, shall we say, mind-bogglingly odd.
Recognizing the existence of differences between men and women should not be considered a regression for the women’s rights movement.
In her new book ‘The Battle for British Islam,’ campaigner Sara Khan offers a work of admirable frankness, determination, and moral clarity.
If this rate of letter propagation continues, we’ll soon have an acronym that spans several lines and will be worth well over two thousand points in Scrabble.
Trump especially did quite well in a region which had not voted Republican on a federal basis in ages.
If the lessons of the past 50 years are to be learned, policymakers will need a much broader course of instruction than can be provided by human capital theory.
By no means does freedom of religion, however, confer on religion or religious customs exemptions from criticism, satire, or even derision.
And when policy is not up for debate and when conversation is taken off the table.
When historians study ancient societies they use pottery, cave art, paintings and engravings as their sources. Memes can play the same role as one of the sources of history.