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  • Using Diversity for Personal Gain

    Using Diversity for Personal Gain0

    Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality, by Nancy Leong (Stanford University Press; 240 pp., $28.00). Nancy Leong recounts her chagrin at a friend’s wedding to start her jaundiced polemic, Identity Capitalists. The tipsy bride, gushing with thanks for Leong’s attendance, hugged her before joking indelicately, “I mean if you hadn’t been

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  • Using Campuses as Illegal Immigration Sanctuaries is a Bad Idea

    Using Campuses as Illegal Immigration Sanctuaries is a Bad Idea0

    On Nov. 16, thousands of students at public and private universities across the country walked out of classes to protest the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. One of their main goals was to urge college officials to declare their campuses as “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants—a controversial move that could start a political battle

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  • Using Aristotle’s 3 Principles of Logic to Advance Our Knowledge

    Using Aristotle’s 3 Principles of Logic to Advance Our Knowledge0

    One of the big questions emerging from the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is what exactly it means to know something at all. While advanced AI models can present the appearance of knowledge and understanding, scratching below the conversational surface shows that these models severely lack the capacity for what philosophers have considered knowledge. The

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  • Usha Vance and the Wisdom of Frugal Fashion

    Usha Vance and the Wisdom of Frugal Fashion0

    What famous people wear is always the talk of the town, a fact Second Lady Usha Vance is likely beginning to learn. As she recently noted on X, the New York Times published an entire article on the political significance of the coral-colored dress she wore while filming a Father’s Day reading session with her

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  • Users of UK Parenting Website Revolt Against Transgenderism

    Users of UK Parenting Website Revolt Against Transgenderism0

    A rebellion against transgenderism has broken out on the hugely popular British parenting website Mumsnet after some users were banned for “misgendering” and “transphobia” in referring to certain persons, it seems. Starting Thursday evening UK time the “I am Spartacus” thread has attracted more than 800 posts, all but a handful rejecting the idea of

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  • Useful Idiots on the Right: The Never Trumpers

    Useful Idiots on the Right: The Never Trumpers7

    It’s been over five years now since Donald Trump surprised many by winning the 2016 presidential election. Yet in many ways, the hate for him—especially in his own party—has never seemed stronger. One could perhaps have excused Republicans for detesting him back in 2016. He was, after all, an unknown quantity, an outsider of questionable

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