On Opposing FrontsHow does one advance with aggression?
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant” – Maximilien Robespierre Politics have always been a dividing factor in society. As humanity progresses, the dividing lines grow more and more complicated. For each new ideology, there is a new front standing firmly opposed. Nothing encompasses
On Liberty of Conscience and Toleration or why we can’t eat the cake and have it too
In the past few weeks, a lot of ink has been spilled, both in the press and on social media, about the way some freedoms clash with anti-discrimination laws. The dominant leitmotiv seems to be that hate speech should be banned or even criminalised, religious exemptions are deemed unfair, and more recently, the presumably scandalous
On Being Non-WhiteBrexit, Trump and Identity Politics Kick Off Post-Truth Era
I was having a glass of vermouth with my friend over the weekend when she looked at me and asked, “Did you know we are not White?” “I thought white meant skin color,” she added while looking at her hands. It’s understandable to link skin color to ethnicity since we have come to classify races
Don’t Buy the Ruse of Saudi ‘Reform’لا تنخدع بكذبة 'الإصلاح' السعودي
(الترجمة العربية في أدنى الصفحة)
If you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. But if you put oil in a corrupt monarchy that exports violent, sexist and homophobic ideologies to the world, it becomes a close ally of the “free world.”
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