If you read the news at all, you noticed the explosion of the meme, but here’s are some examples. If you want to know what Trump actually said, take a look [emphasis mine]: OK. Good. Are we going to take … Continue reading →
Several people have mentioned in the Durham statue thread—the post entitled “Meanwhile, the revision of history…”—that pulling down a statue is not obliterating or even revising history, it’s merely getting rid of a tribute. Yes, it’s a tribute, and of … Continue reading →
With the advent of tests for Downs syndrome in utero and the availability of abortion, the future of Downs syndrome as a phenomenon has become a question mark. In the country of Iceland, for example, 100% of the women carrying … Continue reading →
I think you’ll see why. It’s from the Czech author Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which he wrote in the late 1970s: Circle dancing is magic. It speaks to us through the millennia from the depths of … Continue reading →
…continues apace: A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building. Around 7:10 p.m. a woman using a ladder climbed the … Continue reading →
There was a demonstration, a counter-demonstration, and two kinds of violence. One was the clashes between the two sets of demonstrators, many of whom were ready and eager to fight. The second was a madman (albeit one with a neo-Nazi … Continue reading →
Actually, if may be important in any kind of change, and that includes the ability to sincerely apologize (which is not all that common). From commenter “J.J.”: Then there is the matter of open/closed mindedness. Open/closed mindedness is one of … Continue reading →
Alan Dershowitz believes that even partisans must apply the same rules to each side: Now that it is President Trump who is being targeted, my partisan Democratic friends are vociferously rejecting these neutral civil liberties arguments, because they do not … Continue reading →
I’ve been mulling over what to write about the recent events in Charlottesville, and I think the best way to start (I’m a bit pressed for time today) is to link to this post by William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection. … Continue reading →
A scene from Monty Python’s “Life of Brian (1979,” one of my favorite movies:
Continue reading →Several readers have suggested that I read this essay by a thoughtful former SJW who has just about had it with what she sees on the left: I’ve been undergoing a pretty significant change in the way I interpret the … Continue reading →
Here’s what he writes: I was fired by Google this past Monday for a document that I wrote and circulated internally raising questions about cultural taboos and how they cloud our thinking about gender diversity at the company and in … Continue reading →