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Affirmative action thought control
Black students and some professors at Duke University are up in arms over a study that shows that black students drop out of science majors disproportionally, behavior that is wholly explained by their status as the beneficiary of racial preferences, as … Continue reading
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The end of the Reformation
Am I the only one to note the relative lack of salience of the Catholic-Protestant divide in the Republican primaries? Commentators routinely ignore the fact that the two candidates with the greatest appeal to evangelical Protestants are Roman Catholic. Not … Continue reading
Defend monogamy, not “happiness”
The New York Times reports on a confrontational interaction between Rick Santorum and people who support same-sex marriage: “If you’re not happy unless you’re married to five other people, is that O.K.?” he asked. That angered the audience, which booed … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
2012… And that’s 2012 AD. The substitution of BC and AD with BCE and CE has to be one of the more pointless examples of the language laundering that scars our, uh, era.
Atheists behaving churlishly
Of the various Christmas sightseeing destinations offered a child in 1960s Los Angeles, the Santa Monica crèches—a series of small stage sets erected on the bluffs above the Pacific Coast Highway–were particularly alluring. The life-sized mannequins that populated the chicken-wire … Continue reading
Merry Christmas One and All…
…on the occasion of this thoroughly enjoyable, marvelously syncretic celebration. “For the people who were shovelling away on the house-tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a … Continue reading
Gay marriage and polygamous marriage
Rod Dreher asks: If same-sex marriage, why not polygamy? I think an excessive legalistic focus in this area confuses. Rather, if we focus on the ends then the distinctions are obvious: – Same-sex marriage is not the human norm. Polygamy … Continue reading
Libertarianism as ends and means
I haven’t had time to follow up my post below on libertarianism. But my friend Jim Manzi wrote something similar, at much greater length, in 2009: The Paradox of Libertarianism. I endorse it, though you may not!
The rise of fundamentalism
As ultra-Orthodox flex muscle, Israel feminists see a backsliding: “Women walk down the street as though they are at the beach,” said Rabbi Shmuel Pappenheim, a spokesman and leader for an umbrella group of ultra-Orthodox factions. “If in the past … Continue reading
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Asians are not a minority
Is There Room for Diversity in Silicon Valley?: In the CNN documentary series, “Black in America,” eight Black entrepreneurs in the NewMe Accelerator program share their struggles to launch start-up businesses in a place where minority representation is virtually nonexistent. … Continue reading
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