"Nobody owns his or her culture. All practices are impure, borrowed from distant places at some point or another. To pretend otherwise is to ignore reality." Article about tattoos and cultural appropriation by Liz Wolfe for Reason, February 2018.
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What if we were radically empathetic toward the people who spew hate at us online? That's the question Dylan Marron explores in his new podcast, aptly called "Conversations with people who hate me."
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The Victorian government moves to introduce laws requiring vaccination for enrollment in kindergarten and childcare centres, with medically-unable or religiously-unable kids to be exempt. Proud of my home-state <3
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So oil companies spend millions of dollars annually promoting climate change denial to the populace and obstructing legislation through lobbying. Yet all the money's in academia, right? (lol what a fcking joke)
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Surpriiiiise. By advocating minimum wage hikes, people get to signal their own political virtue—at the expense of other people’s jobs. Article by Hans Bader for The Foundation for Economic Education, March 2019.
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"The rise of antifa, like the rise of ethno-nationalism, actually provides a common ground among conservatives, liberals, & libertarians who believe in the classical-liberal ideals of free speech & tolerance." Nick Gillespie for Reason, 28 AUG 2017.
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Dudley Dough, a “fair-wage” pizza parlor dedicated to “economic justice” in Boston, has been forced to close its doors because it is unable to make enough profits. Surpriiiise! Independent Journal Review, 25 Oct 2017.
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The supposed plague of misleading and harmful information on the internet is nothing new, nor is governments' desire to muzzle anybody who says inconvenient things. JD Tuccille for Reason, 13 May 2019.
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The head of the European Center for Nuclear Research says its discovered a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson -- a particle considered so significant to the understanding of the universe that it's been called the God particle.
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The ACLU is right: Do you really want Donald Trump deciding who gets free speech? Article by Katherine Mangu-Ward for Reason, 14 Aug 2017.
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