

Graduate Student. Interest in racism, social justice, politics, and gender issues. Art, design, and current affairs are cool too.
nize this damaging dynamic when it takes the shape…e-sex and opposite-sex parents, single or married, and blurs the line between keeper and companion. The dynamic often traps children between feeling overwhelmed and empowered by the emotional responsibility, and because the child ultimately takes on a parental role, they often lose the essence of their childhood. We may not recognize this damaging dynamic when it takes the shape of an adorable five-year-old te…
As I said in the book, remember your math: An anecdote is not a trend. Remember your history: The fact that something is bad today doesn’t mean it was better in the past. Keep some perspective. Not every problem is a crisis, plague, epidemic, or existential threat, and …
…eas for the progress of science that, unless you have an open debate, then knowledge is impossible. And if there is a demonological view of history and the world — that there are oppressive forces and liberationist forces, that progress comes from liberationists vanquishing the oppressors, and that the designated oppressors therefore have no right to present their views — then that is bound to lead to error and possibly oppression. The self-appointed liberators themselves, being human, are apt to a magnify their own wisdom and virtue.