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What Elise Stefanik’s Inquisition Actually Revealed

December 12, 2023 Tags: censorship, journalism and reporting, morality and justice, politics

Freedom of speech is essential if sound ideas are to be promoted and flourish and if dangerous ideas are to be exposed and wither. It can be a difficult freedom to defend. At a Congressional hearing last Tuesday, following the terrible events of

Gender Tags

November 27, 2023 Tags: annoyances, morality and justice, politics, word usage

In the past few decades my name, Adrian, has become androgynous. The distinction used to be between my spelling, which was for boys and men, and “Adrienne” for girls and women. Often this distinction is maintained today, but often not. Combine the

Sisyphus

November 14, 2023 Tags: crime, empathy, history, morality and justice, politics

Something terrible is always happening around the world. Many of us living in peaceful places can’t help but wonder at our good fortune while we seek to understand what has gone so wrong elsewhere. 1 Two mornings a week on my ninth floor terrace,

Neely and Penny: What Do We Know?

June 28, 2023 Tags: crime, morality and justice, politics

The other day, a friend was sitting in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park with a friend when a friend of the friend appeared. Somehow a recent incident came up. On May 1, a 24-year-old, white ex-marine named Daniel Penny put a thirty-year-old black man named

Sunlight at Amherst?

April 12, 2023 Tags: censorship, disability, empathy, morality and justice, politics, well-being and medical

I finally have the basic answer to the question I posed to my alma mater, Amherst College, nearly two years ago. Subscribers to this website may recall that, after being excluded from a Zoom presentation in 2021 due to the College’s reliance on an

Disability Discomfiture

January 13, 2023 Tags: censorship, disability, morality and justice, politics

I remain deadlocked with my beloved alma mater, Amherst College, over its refusal to answer my question about how many blind and otherwise physically disabled students it has admitted in the past ten years. As I wrote in my July 5, 2021 essay

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