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Casualties of war.
The War on Drugs is not a war on drugs, at least not as that phrase is commonly understood in the English language. Assess the misery associated with the drug trade, and you would have to be on drugs...
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The 13th Amendment case for abortion rights.
In response to my post yesterday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one of my Many Tens of Loyal Readers™ emailed me his thoughts about the constitutional basis for abortion rights. He had written a...
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Reads 4 U.
Now the UN is intervening in Detroit’s water conflict. Could thirsty cities riot? Burns, R., The Guardian (Oct. 2014). (“Angry protests over water provision have shaken cities around the world, and...
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Andrew Sullivan: FREE SPEECH™ of straight white d00ds dooooomed by evil...
Portrait of Andrew Sullivan by Iris Vander Pluym oil on canvas, 30 ft. x 50 ft. $10 million [TRIGGER WARNING: discussion of sexist, racist and other problematic language.] [UPDATE: cross-posted at...
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Palace flags at half mast for Transgender Day of Remembrance.
November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance (“TDoR”), a day to memorialize and mourn those who have been killed as a result of transphobia, and to call attention to the violence endured by those in...
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Fucking hell, people.
[CONTENT NOTE: Orlando mass shooting and related issues; rape; mental health. No violent images or graphic descriptions.] I was quite literally rendered speechless upon learning of the tragedy in...
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Erasure and Victorian women.
I first started giving more thought to the phenomenon of erasure in 2013, after hearing talks from Susan Jacoby and Jennifer Michael Hecht at CFI’s Women in Secularism 2 conference (yes, that one)....
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