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The World Health Organization announced last week that Europe is now the epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic. As the announcement was made, many countries in Africa and Asia were imposing strict restrictions on the arrival of flights and visitors from Europe. It felt like a great historical reversal, one
The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.
I did not enjoy the protection of tenure (I was, however, tenure-track), but we should not rely upon tenure to uphold free inquiry.
There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines.
It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.
The words “cult” and “cultish” often are used loosely to describe not only literal cults such as the one created by Jones, but also militant political movements, and even the fanatical followers of entertainers and sports teams.
For the rest of society to acquiesce to this lie is not only a betrayal of science, but of democracy.
They argued that “mansplaining” was just the “tip of the iceberg” and so coined terms such as “Himpediment,” defined as a “man who stands in the way of progress of women.”
The solution doesn’t have to be so complicated.
Some women do marry men with less education, though. These women tend to marry men who earn more than them.
Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”
A more aggressive use of controlled burns might have given firefighters a chance to control this season’s bushfires.
Last month the Huffington Post published an essay by Claire Fallon entitled “Was this Decade the Beginning of the End of the Great White Male Writer?” Fallon celebrated the notion that white men are losing their prominence in contemporary American literature and that the best books being published in America