January 16, 2010
France: Female Algerian playwright attacked by men who “insulted her in Arabic” and tried to burn her with gasoline Algerian-born actress, comedienne and feminist Rayhana “The French Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers says it is worried that freedom of expression is under threat in France.” There’s more where that came from. “Playwright petrol attack [...]
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October 17, 2009
Conservatism is a tradition, not a pathology There is a concerted effort to keep conservative Ph.D.’s out of jobs, to deny tenure to those who get through, and to ignore conservative books and ideas. It is an old answer, dating back to the 1970s, when neoconservatives began writing about the “adversary culture” of intellectuals. Horowitz [...]
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