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by | Jul 10, 2020

Writers and intellectuals from across the political spectrum signed an open letter in Harper’s Magazine calling for civility and open…

by | Jun 27, 2020

Propagandists actively work to silence any speech at odds with their view that trans people’s identities are innate. This week,…

by | Jun 9, 2020

J. K. Rowling is under attack for the sin of believing that sex is real and has lived consequences. “If…

by | Nov 20, 2019

In The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies, Robert Boyers notes that “fanatics incensed…

by | Jul 25, 2019

No one would ever nefariously exploit gender non-discrimination laws to prey on little girls, they said. Right-wing fearmongering, they called…

by | May 30, 2019

Gillette, the personal care brand that made the news earlier this year thanks to a viral advertising campaign lecturing its…

by | Feb 25, 2019

A college friend from Connecticut told this joke (it was also a joke made at the expense of Michigan Tech,…

by | Jan 29, 2019

Julia Beck’s voice quavered with emotion and she seemed on the brink of tears as she neared the end of…

by | May 11, 2018

A very serious civil rights struggle — the stuff that Martin Luther King surely envisioned — engulfs Brazil, home of…

by | Jan 30, 2018

Washington America’s most prolific leaker, Chelsea Manning, and the man who proclaimed himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” Joe Arpaio, have a…

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