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Indo-Brit 🇮🇳🇬🇧 Parsi. Subeditor @areomagazine; host of Tea4Two tinyurl.com/y8nm8czw Latest book: Our Tango World tinyurl.com/y9l9eel3
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Female genital mutilation law deemed "unconstitutional" to allow boys across U.S. to be circumcised | Opinion
To put it bluntly, the goal seems to be to create a buffer of protection around male circumcision by throwing female children under the bus.
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later
You wouldn’t think that a defense of reason, science, and humanism would be particularly controversial in an era in which those ideals would seem to need all the help they can get. But in the words of a colleague, “You’ve made people’s heads...
Duluth K-9, Suspect Dead In Officer-Involved Shooting
DULUTH, Minn. – A felony level domestic assault call on West Skyline Parkway ended Sunday evening with an officer shot and his K-9 partner dead, including the suspect, according to a press release from the Duluth Police Department. The incident...
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The Many Faces of Social Justice
Social Justice today has a seriously bad rap. Almost every morning, a new essay decrying the pernicious effects and general incoherence of “Social Justice ideology,” “Social Justice activism” or th…
White Knight (2020)
Directed by Gregory Segal. With Lev Gorn, Billy Ray Gallion, Lara Morena, Lovely Abella. An American marine, retired from active service due to disability and in the Philippines, gets tangled up in a series of murders when a stalker begins to...
A Racist Exam Question—or Was It?
“It was an oddball question for a Health Science class, eh?” writes my colleague, when I text her the article about the controversy surrounding Cal State University, Long Beach lecturer Matthew Fis…
Think Online Hate From Your Enemies Is Bad? Try Getting It From Your Friends
The Washington Post published an article about online hate, but they only showed one dimension.
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Doctors Opposing Circumcision provides professionals and parents with complete, accurate information on circumcision, the foreskin, and relevant ethics.
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Sunday podcast listening. #TwoForTea with @briandavidearp. The case against circumcision.
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The Shady Link Between Sunscreen and Your Health
Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests—and quite possibly even racist. How did we get it so wrong?
On secret cults and male dominance
““They told us that Abvwoi was a secret cult, and that if we told women we should be killed and dragged away into the forest. They really did kill people – not in our own time, but two people were killed before us.” - Daniel Bako of Agban village,...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Pinker, S. (Forthcoming). Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress . Viking.
British subtext: Half of Americans wouldn’t be able to tell that a Briton is calling them an idiot | YouGov
New YouGov survey indicates that Americans would miss the passive-aggressive British subtext in everyday phrases
"Danny Boy"
This is me singing "Oh Danny Boy" as part of my high school senior project in 2004.
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