DISABILITY
What it is to be disabled is to be unable, or at least less able, than others at some specifiable task. This is because we’re all unable, or at least less able, than others, at something. And who are these… Read More ›
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QUASIMODO
Imagine a world where there’s a fetching woman for every man, even if he’s Quasimodo. Where BMWs grow on trees. Where there’s a spot in the professoriate for every candidate who wants one. Under conditions of such plenty, there can… Read More ›
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AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING ABLEIST
At the beginning of every term I get a number of letters from the Disabilities Office telling me that this student or that has an unspecified disability that entitles her to half again the time allotted to other students to… Read More ›
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FROM THE COULDN’T-HAVE-SAID-IT-BETTER-MYSELF FILE
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ON CONDOLENCES
Allow me to just stipulate. By political individualism, as distinct from individualism simpliciter, I shall mean the view that what justifies the coercive power of the state are the interests of its constituent members. By contrast, for the collectivist it’s… Read More ›
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INDIGENOUS SCIENCE
Some academics argue that, the Aztecs, the Mayans, and the Incas aside, the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere were at a pre-scientific level of development, and so there’s really no such thing as indigenous science. I think this mischaracterizes the case. … Read More ›
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A BEGRUDGING DEFENCE OF THE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM
I claim no conversance, let alone any expertise, in the residential school question, but I do know enough ethics to note that it’s feckless to condemn what was done in fact without offering what could have been done instead. From… Read More ›
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WELL OF COURSE ACADEMIC FREEDOM IS POLITICAL
The scope of my academic freedom and of your freedom of expression are not coextensive. That is, I can, and regularly do, say all kinds of stupid things in the bar that I would be rightly disciplined for publishing in… Read More ›
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ON THE RESEGREGATION MOVEMENT
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AN UNSEEMLY THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ABOUT DESMOND TUTU
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COUNTING THE COST
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SNOW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
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Paulosophical Vimplications 