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But Afghanistan was an Almost Perfect War
But don’t worry. There’s still plenty of war to invest in. Read more
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They Were Always There…They Were Just Hiding
In the last few years I’ve had between one and six transgender students on my class roster. This is great! But where were these students in the first two and a half decades of my career? Well, they were there. Read more
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Critical Race Theory, Sex, God, and Dangerous Knowledge
The seemingly sudden campaign against Critical Race Theory is just one small episode in a larger series of battles to control public knowledge and the accepted narrative. Read more
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Sympathy for Idiots
a category based on the absence of an attribute, in this case empirical reason, is often a weak explainer. If reason and evidence isn’t motivating this movement, then what is? Dismissing this particular end of the “basket of deplorables” as idiots doesn’t offer a satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Nor does it offer an opportunity… Read more
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