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The ever-renewing terror threat

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

A Congressional hearing last week on terror threats facing the U.S. was covered by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, both of which told the identical story:  the U.S. is at serious danger from domestic, homegrown terrorists.  … Continue reading →

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A trip down Memory Lane: Freedom Agenda 2005

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

If Obama had given the following speech, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and the rest of the knee-jerk venom squad who are petulantly faulting the Obama Administration’s cautious response to the Egyptian revolution would have frothed at the presumption of such … Continue reading →

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The “carceral state:” An unjust drag on Rotarian membership?

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

I discuss an article by University of Virginia professor Vesla Weaver arguing that contact with the “carceral state” illegitimately depresses civic and political engagement in this Bloggingheads debate.

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Right-wing sour grapes

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

The Fox News reporter, speaking from Cairo half an hour ago, did not receive the right-wing-media talking points.  Back in the New York studio, a Fox blonde had been skeptically quizzing Alan Colmes about all the downsides to Mubarak’s stepping … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia and gender bias

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

Women are underrepresented in journalism and other public fields, a fact which feminists reflexively attribute to sexism.  Wikipedia’s gender ratio demolishes that Womens Studies bromide, as I discuss here.

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Egypt and the Right-wing media meltdown

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

The right-wing punditocracy’s sputtering reaction to the Obama Administration’s Egyptian diplomacy is a new low point in the melt-down of rationality on the right.  I am utterly convinced that had Bush been in power and had gently suggested that Mubarak … Continue reading →

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Youth and revolution

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

The New York Times’ print front page has a photo today of a bunch of scruffy Egyptian youth, sitting around their laptops, that encapsulates for me one puzzle of the Egyptian protests and others like them.  These self-consciously hip youngsters, … Continue reading →

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The Contradictions of Multiculturalism

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Andrew Sullivan, an intriguing (and very lengthy) discussion in Eurozine on multiculturalism, much of it from contributors coming (I’d guess) from a leftish point of view, something which makes it all the more interesting. This (from Kenan Malik) caught … Continue reading →

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Free Publicity

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Bradlaugh

Was the Tucson shooter inspired by the American Renaissance race-realist website/newsletter?  The Obamarrhoids planted a suggestion that he was; Fox News took the bait; American Renaissance denied and disproved the slur; now the accusers seem to have backed off.  This little … Continue reading →

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No illusions, just reality

Posted on January 11, 2011 by David Hume

In Pakistan, the Shooter Is the Hero: The depressing public reaction to the assassination of Pakistani politician Salman Taseer: “Nowadays, he’s perfectly heroic,” says Imran Shiekh, the owner of a small jewelry store tucked away in the market’s depths. “Qadri … Continue reading →

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