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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.
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.
As Plato noted, once one has ascended to the pinnacle of wisdom, or at least successfully defended a PhD thesis.
Trump’s speech highlighted these key aspirations, and struck the right notes, for his intended audience—the socially conservative.
The escalating political rhetoric on both sides has led Pat Buchanan to ask openly what some on the American Right have been pondering privately for a while.
Kipnis’ cautionary tale dovetails with Camille Paglia’s collection of essays, Free Women, Free Men.
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
He counsels them to face the fact that life entails much suffering, and that inner and interpersonal conflict are inevitable – not the kind of thing most “satisfied customers” want to hear.
Living in truth doesn’t mean speaking out unthinkingly on every issue. It matters not just what we say, but how we say it.
Just to be clear, most of my faculty colleagues are well-educated, bright, and dedicated teachers. Some are also worthy scholars or creative authors.
The kernel of an explanation lies in the fact that the majority think that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy and the Western way of life.
If Hirsi Ali’s critics are tempted to cite statistics minimizing the threat, they will have to explain at what point – after how many more deaths – they will consider it necessary to take action.