I think we might have been too quick getting rid of some features of medieval jurisprudence. How so? Well, Derek Chauvin’s defence is claiming it wasn’t Chauvin’s knee on his neck that killed George Floyd, it was the drugs in his… Read More ›
Everything You Wanted to Know About What’s Going On in the World But Were Afraid to Ask
THE UNIVERSITY SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE
It’s good that I’ve recused myself from all hiring committees here at the University of Lethbridge, because if I hadn’t I’d worry I might succumb to overkill and vote against any candidate who wasn’t able-bodied, heterosexual, white, and male. “Huh?!”… Read More ›
ONE DAY IN AN ESL CLASS
Teacher: Okay class, that’s it for today. Oh, and one last thing. Never use the n-word.Student: What’s the n-word?Teacher: I’m not allowed to say.Student: Huh?! Uh, can you at least tell us how it’s used?Teacher: Sure. It’s the offensive word… Read More ›
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
Okay, Ms Snowflake, we could go back to arranged marriages, but I’m guessing you don’t want to do that. So in the post-patriarchal world, how exactly are men and women – or men and men, or women and women –… Read More ›
WHAT?!
Saturday Night Live has come under fire this weekend for having made the following joke: “Israel just announced it has now vaccinated half its population. I’m guessing it’s the Jewish half.” I can understand why some people think that any… Read More ›
TAKING THE REVERSE OUT OF REVERSE DISCRIMINATION
Suppose I’m a black woman who’s just been denied a job, or accommodation, or whatever, because I’m a black woman, notwithstanding that most of my black brothers and sisters are not being denied these things, at least in the community… Read More ›
REQUIEM FOR THE UNIVERSITY
Universities are like any other institution. They evolve, they devolve. Sometimes they rise out of the ashes, and sometimes they go the way of the dodo bird. But they always morph. So though I’ve recently come to co-awfulise with my… Read More ›
ADMINSPEAK
Had we been able to complete the tower we’d have been up there to take Him on face to face. And so to prevent this – He’s a jealous god, remember – He broke us up into different languages, so… Read More ›
PREEMPTIVE INSURGENCY
I’ve made no secret elsewhere – but so far not on this blog – of what I take to be the driver of both our moral dispositions and our political arrangements. It is, as Thomas Hobbes argued, the wherewithal to… Read More ›
HOMEWARD BOUND
If someone had told us we were crossing from one continent to another, we wouldn’t have known what he was talking about. We were just following the Antlers, as we’d done for as long as I or anyone else could… Read More ›
