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Project Vox
Project Vox concerns the next major scholarly development: the acknowledgement that a number of early modern women have been unjustly ignored in our narratives. From Lady Masham, Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway in England to Émilie Du Châtelet in France,… Continue reading
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Interrupting Pride for Black Lives
Black, queer, trans, criminalized – the young people who put together Sunday’s event are living on the front lines of struggle in this country. They are to our times what the early trailblazers of the gay rights movement were to… Continue reading
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SCOTUS: Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage
Still waiting for the mandate of when this will go into effect but, as Justice Anthony Kennedy said, ” The constitution promises liberty to all within its reach.” Expect folks like Gov. Abbott of Texas and Gov. Jindal of Louisiana… Continue reading
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Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge
I often talk with youth (here and here are some examples) about how what they are doing in high school and/or university may not be giving them everything they need. There are lot of ways, however, that the system can… Continue reading
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Irony Incarcerated
Below is a picture of a product made by unpaid Texas prison inmates who work for extra privileges (like time off of their sentence, the ability to buy goodies at the commissary, exercise in the yard, etc.). They get rooming,… Continue reading
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Justice Elena Kagan’s Pro–Spider-Man Ruling
A suit involving an inventor trying to retain royalty payments for a web slinging glove (shoots silly string actually) after the patent ran out on the toy. Marvel didn’t want to pay royalties. Inventor wanted them to keep coming… Kagan… Continue reading
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‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman
@aoscott reviews Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age. the present and its technological lures and discontents, thankfully, are not really [Susan Neiman‘s] concern, any more than the jeremiad is her chosen form; she comes across as a patient pedagogue… Continue reading
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Revisionist Betrayal
We owe it to ourselves and to our descendants to be always open to reconsidering history. But there is a difference between taking back up an account to make it more rigorous and adopting a wholesale lie that makes us… Continue reading
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