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I like that the Duke quad is named for Abele. But it can’t erase the prohibition of the architect any more than affirmative action can be an adequate compensation for all of the tobacco plantation workers dizzied in those fields, sweating in those rows, who labored for the prosperity in these grand buildings. Necessary but insufficient. And not a j
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
A liberalism that focuses solely on the individual and on humanity as a whole may fail to see how certain identity groups are disadvantaged. Greater attention to this aspect of identity is warranted, though not to the exclusion of all other concerns.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
When I was growing up, we went to New Orleans annually. I do not remember which visit it was when she took me to the Bourbon Orleans Hotel. But I remember her finger, slender with heavy knuckles, like mine have become, pointing at the plaque “Former Site of Holy Family Sisters Convent.” The unmentioned historic purpose of the ballroom was that it s
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