Opening Cuba to American tourists may deliver the final blow to its inhuman and vicious regime.
Radicalization and European social policy.
Michael Moore’s letter to Trump.
Do you know Rebecca Solnit? The person who made a name for herself based on the “men explain shit to me meme”? Here is her latest silly rant. I can’t read anything by her without wondering if men keep trying to explain things to her because she’s not too bright. Maybe it’s just a pose but everything she writes is just dumb.
The crisis of the Humanities is a myth.
Finally, a really good article on the freedom of speech.
Do people realize how incredibly stupid they sound when they write shit like that: “The Republican debate last night was truly frightening, and not because the candidates kept telling me that I needed to be afraid of ISIS“? Nobody tells you anything, idiot. Nobody knows you exist.
The most hilarious parody on the academic quit lit genre. I laughed until I wept.
I don’t understand why all of these fake, showy Christians can’t find it in themselves to feel compassion towards an obviously broken, miserable human being.
“Overburdening children with caregiving responsibilities can have negative affects in adulthood.” Tell me about it.
Tenure is not a guarantee that one will not be fired. It exists to protect the scholarship of people like these, distasteful as we might find them.
Huge companies have the worst hiring strategies. See this list of idiotic questions Amazon asks at interviews.
Typically American (but not in a good way): an author promises to tell you about Syria and then starts every sentence with “the West” or “the US.” Because Syria doesn’t really exist as anything but a pretext for American navel-gazing.
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