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These educators apparently either don’t know or don’t care about ridicule from working adults, many of whom are alumni of the very institutions in question.
Two traits — general intelligence and self-control — are perhaps our best individual level predictors of living a successful life.
Diversity is the celebration of individuality and nonconformity, and democracy is most precious when it allows three hundred million individuals to reach a compromise out of love for their country.
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion.
If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.
And when policy is not up for debate and when conversation is taken off the table.
The words are usually associated with Eastern or New Age spirituality, and they sound as bizarre on the tongue of a science-minded atheist as an Arab Bible-believer.
To our knowledge, we have yet to see a similar example applied specifically to race.
What would happen should Trump get elected? On the Right, President Trump would force the GOP to completely reorganize—and fast.
Gawker Media has tormented both powerful and not so powerful people for some time now.
If you discount Islamic doctrine as the motivation for domestic violence and intolerance of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, you’re left with at least one implicitly bigoted assumption.
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
This misguided reticence is a product of archaic cultural mores that make sex a thing of shame for women, but one of pride for men.
Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world.
The dismal spectacle of radical queer activists, feminists, and sundry other progressives professing solidarity with Islamists is at once fascinating and enraging.