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  • Not just about sex: throughout our bodies, thousands of genes act differently in men and women

    Not just about sex: throughout our bodies, thousands of genes act differently in men and women0

    • November 7, 2017

    Most of us are familiar with the genetic differences between men and women. Men have X and Y sex chromosomes, and women have two X chromosomes. We know that genes on these chromosomes may act differently in men and women. But a recent paper claims that beyond just genes on X and Y, a full

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  • Not Everything Is Political

    Not Everything Is Political0

    Many readers have probably heard, and a few may even have used, the slogan: “the personal is the political.” Though its original source is unclear, it first cropped up in the late 1960s and early 1970s (see this paper) within “second-wave” feminism. Back then, it had a legitimate point: women’s personal experiences and choices are

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  • Not Everyone Has the Same Capacity for Learning

    Not Everyone Has the Same Capacity for Learning0

    In America, since the first half of the 19th century, much energy has been expended on offering education to all citizens. At first, this desire for universal education was for an education in the basics. It gave birth to the Common School Movement (the progenitor of America’s public school system), which was guided in part

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  • Not Everyone Can Handle the Truth

    Not Everyone Can Handle the Truth0

    When it comes to arguing over differences on an important point, “saving your breath” on someone isn’t always an act of dismissiveness. In some cases, it’s probably an act of wisdom. The democratization of intellect in America has created the impression that almost everyone should be capable of rational discourse. After all, we live in

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  • Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution

    Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution0

    • November 6, 2017

    It only took a few hours after the news of the Texas massacre for the New York Times to start its gun-control incantations again. “Republicans leaders in Congress do nothing,” the paper writes. “Or, really, so far they’ve done the same thing they have always done: offered thoughts and prayers.” But here is a truth.

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  • Not Every Slippery-Slope Argument is a Fallacy

    Not Every Slippery-Slope Argument is a Fallacy0

    • March 7, 2016

    In critical-thinking, logic, and philosophy classes, students are often taught to detect and avoid something called “the slippery-slope fallacy.” Such warnings are sometimes justified. But at other times they are actually misleading—so much so that rejecting certain arguments as slippery-slope fallacies is itself fallacious. Understanding why is important morally, politically, and psychologically. A search on

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