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  • Refusal to Use Preferred Gender Pronouns Costs British Doctor His Job

    Refusal to Use Preferred Gender Pronouns Costs British Doctor His Job0

    The belief that gender is assigned at birth has cost one British doctor his job as a disability assessor for the Department of Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom. Dr. David Mackereth, 55, the father of four, was dismissed from the department after only recently being hired because he told the instructor for a

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  • Refugees, Migrants, or Invaders?

    Refugees, Migrants, or Invaders?0

    • September 18, 2015

    Stories of refugees and immigration fill the news. After the awful image of a drowned child washed up on a Turkish beach was promoted around the world, one gets the feeling that any opposition to refugees and migrants is unacceptable. I have a child that age and I see her when I look at that

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  • Refugees vs. Immigrants: Let’s Not Conflate the Two

    Refugees vs. Immigrants: Let’s Not Conflate the Two0

    A couple of months ago, when I first began writing for Intellectual Takeout, I wrote a piece about the difference between arguing and quarreling. I referred to G. K. Chesterton’s quip, concerning his relationship with his brother, that they were always arguing but they never quarreled. Chesterton’s point is that arguing is good, whereas quarreling

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  • Reforming Birth One Baby at a Time

    Reforming Birth One Baby at a Time8

    This week, I had the opportunity to talk about my birth experiences at a local university. I was one member of a panel of three women representing ICAN, the International Cesarean Awareness Network, to speak to a women’s studies class about the issue of birth and women’s treatment by the medical community. About half of

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  • Reflections on the Reality We’re Facing

    Reflections on the Reality We’re Facing11

    In his Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell recounts an incident in which he and Johnson were discussing philosopher Bishop Berkeley’s idea that matter was non-existent, that everything in the world is ideal. When Boswell says that the bishop’s hypothesis cannot be refuted, Johnson kicks a large stone and says, “I refute him thus.” Philosophers

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  • Reflections on Punctuation … And Death

    Reflections on Punctuation … And Death0

    Death and punctuation share a common function. Both are endings, one marking a completed sentence, the other a completed life. Make metaphors of some punctuation marks, and they can represent certain philosophies regarding the afterlife. A period, for example, might indicate the demise of an atheist, that is, life is over and done with. The

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