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Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.
Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career.
Being able to improve the lives of the people was always seen as a critical element assuring the Imperial “mandate of heaven.”
The problem with white privilege is its mono-causal disposition (“one-thing-ism”).
The Rise of Jordan Peterson constructs a kaleidoscopic narrative that enables the viewer to look at the same sequence of events in several different ways.
Every year in the US, nearly 2 million students enroll in one of the nearly 4,300 degree-granting colleges and universities.
The key to reducing violence amongst any demographic is in ascertaining the specific attributes of violent individuals.
Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization.
In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution.
If upsetting students or staff or the public is a reason for banning speech, all such discussion is at an end.
To understand our politics, we need to understand the cultural values that drive it.
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.
What the Rangers do they do on behalf of all of us—for every rhino loss is a global loss.
At the height of the #MeToo scandal in 2018, when dozens of actresses were coming forward with sordid testimonies about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation, a much more obscure scandal was unfolding around an academic journal involving the anthropologist David Graeber. The journal—HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory—was imploding
The last lesson of Gelernter’s piece is that while we shouldn’t judge someone’s arguments by their credentials alone, neither should we give unwarranted credence to those who have impressive credentials, particularly when they pronounce on a field in which they lack expertise.