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The intellectual dishonesty and disreputable methods used by these journalists are as bad as the behavior they aim to cure.
Regardless of how one feels about the “IDW” brand, the heterodox movement associated with that label has had a significant and largely positive cultural impact.
The hate against Hect sends a chilling message throughout my campus. Imagine you are a Smith student who supports Trump, his wall, or gun rights. How comfortable would you now be speaking up in class?
Because calamities are uniquely egalitarian in their capacity to kill indiscriminately, they dampen the qualities that make us different.
With little practical training or preparation, graduates of the program begin their teaching careers woefully unprepared.
Stuyvesant is one of eight “specialized high schools” in New York which admit students on the basis of their scores on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT).
I took it as a good sign that by the time I got back to our family brunch all I could talk about was what I’d read about this kid (Palmer Luckey) and his incredible company (Oculus).
Historically, the decolonize movement is often highly selective in which facts it chooses to highlight.
Part of the problem in discussing this is that the meaning of words, as used in some-but-not-all Social Justice-speak, often differs from common usage.
People on social media hurried to declare that they would never again spend a penny at Ristretto and were rewarded with approval from like-minded peers.
The scene, in other words, was all set for Kamala Harris to underline the powerlessness of women during Rao’s confirmation hearings.
It’s a shame so many viewers apparently were too busy fighting the culture war on planet Earth to watch the much cooler war being fought against Klingon forces in the inky vastness of space.
“Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says.
Brodsky said that when confronted by boredom we should “exact full look at the worst.” He said “When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom.”
Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere.