Racism Through Time: It’s Not Always About Colour
In the west today, we most often think of racism as prejudice or discrimination against people of a specific skin colour. But this is not the only way racism manifests.…
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Will Coronavirus Prompt Social Media Giants to Address Disinformation?
In what now seems like a lifetime ago, before the World Health Organization had characterized the spread of Covid-19 as a global pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general,…
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Want to End Homeschooling? Fight Ideological Indoctrination in Public Schools
Photo by Jessica Lewis In a recent interview and article, Elizabeth Bartholet recommends a presumptive ban on homeschooling because its practitioners are disproportionately conservative Christians, eager to shield their children from…
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Towards a Post-Progressive Political Perspective
Photo by Martin Sanchez Ever since I cast my first vote—in 1980, for Jimmy Carter—I’ve identified as a progressive. But, now that the progressive worldview has come of age, dominating academia…
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Facebook Firing Squads: Tribalism in the Age of Covid-19
In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Matt Bai writes that Americans in crisis “have a certain blood lust.” When the chips are down, Bai opines, “we can be counted on…
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Game Theory and the Politics of Coronavirus
The coronavirus caught us off guard. Republicans blame China. Democrats blame Trump. President Trump blames Governor Cuomo and he slams Trump in return. Fox News defends the president’s actions, while…
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Timshel: The Need for Compassion Within the Justice System
I first read John Steinbeck’s East of Eden more than thirty years ago, as a young lawyer who had just opened a criminal defense practice. I remember cherishing the vivid…
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Is There A New Third Way?
When Senator Bernie Sanders recently dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, many wondered how, despite his initial surge in the polls, he was defeated by Joe Biden, a gaffe-prone…
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I’m a Non-White White Feminist
I’m not white. Applied to me, non-white is a meaningless descriptor, but it’s also a very obvious one. My complexion makes it difficult for this fact to go unnoticed, especially…
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Identity Politics After Covid-19: The Same, But Worse
The urgency of the crisis has shown how petty our previous obsessions were. Identity politics, intersectionality, and critical theory all suddenly seem very trivial. To protest, at a time like…
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Boris Johnson and the Language of Lockdown
Although we have a plan, it is a conditional plan.—Boris Johnson Last night, 11 May 2020, our pallid, convalescent prime minister announced the government’s strategy for gradually easing the coronavirus…
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The Asymmetry of Racial Discourse
No political topic can turn friends into strangers and strangers into enemies as predictably, swiftly and decisively as that of race in America.
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Anti-Blackness in China and Why Critical Race Theory Falls Short
Photo by Tim Foster How do you talk about racism when the perpetrator isn’t white? On 28 April, the Wall Street Journal published an article describing the racist treatment that black…
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How Polarized Western Politics Affect Arab Women’s Rights
Sitting in my house in Jordan, under a total lockdown that started more than a month ago, I spend a lot of my free time reading about the different forms…
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Robert D. Kaplan, Covid-19 and the Anarchy that Never Came
Photo by Drew Hays Robert D. Kaplan’s February 1994 Atlantic article “The Coming Anarchy” was one of the most influential articles of the years immediately following the Cold War. The subtitle…
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Karl Marx in the AI Age
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.—John F. Kennedy Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who…
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The Impact of the Left’s Takeover of Academia on the Quality of Higher Education
It will surprise few that college campuses in America lean left. But does it matter? Research suggests that the left’s takeover of academia is hurting the quality of new science…
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Generalisations, Complicity and Jeff Goldblum
Image by Gage Skidmore Yesterday, Jeff Goldblum sparked controversy by asking Jackie Cox, a hijab-wearing contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, whether there was something about Islam that was anti-woman and…
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