Human Rights
A collection of 92 posts
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
Book Burning at Midnight, May 10th, 1933
Following the Nazis’ defeat by the Allies, the imagery lived on. In succeeding decades, projections of the book burning were never long out of sight or reference.
James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature
“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn and anybody is
Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot
The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review
Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Anti-Asian Discrimination Is Real and an Attack on American Values
The self-selection bias of immigrants does not dilute the story.
Starvation and Ethnic Cleansing Stalk Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government has attempted to maintain total control of the narrative by locking down the region and imposing a communications blackout.
Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s political culture is being dismantled.
Cuba’s Doomed War on Independent Art
There were seven police officers, all dressed as civilians. They arrived at the improvised Havana music studio on the morning of Monday, September 28th, kicked down the door and found their target—Maykel Castillo Pérez, a well-known Cuban rapper and human rights activist who was in the process of recording
Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid
Making the World Safe for Autocracy
China’s Stateless Nations
How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights
Surely we should seek to build on the past where possible, improve upon it, and learn from its successes as much as its failures—to create a healthy and honest partnership between past and present as a foundation for our future.
At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second
We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.