Thursday, March 16, 2017

Planning on writing a gay novel? (expanded version)

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If you are planning on writing a gay novel, take this simple quiz to see whether you should proceed. Will the characters live beyond-...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

LGBT rights as "the most conservative of causes"

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In discussing Caitlyn Jenner's mission, Jennifer Finney Boylan writes , As I listened, I wondered whether L.G.B.T. rights really ought n...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

The post-fact society

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It's now fashionable to say that we now live in a post-fact society led by Donald Trump. However, the post-fact society has been develop...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Diversity versus viewpoint diversity

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One of the stated purposes of diversity at least used to be to let people of different viewpoints learn from one another. However, the way i...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Live by the political sword, die by the political sword (3)

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The New York Times reports that Obama has left the door open to strong security tactics by Trump: Over and over, Mr. Obama has imposed lim...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Someone actually said this: Republicans, cities, and small government

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In today's New York Times, we read why Republicans no longer compete in America's big cities and how they could do so: “If you com...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Peter Thiel is no true gay Scotsman.

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A while back, I wrote about the no-true-Scotsman fallacy and its use to argue away dissent in the LGBT community: Orthodox queer people al...