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Agora Episode 3: Faith and Skepticism
PODCAST
Sophia Watson and Niloo Daliri discuss faith and scepticism in this third podcast of their series on Plebity.
Agora Episode 3: Faith and Skepticism
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Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy: Is this 1888 vision of a year 2000 Utopia still relevant?
ARTICLE
Forty years after the Communist Manifesto eviscerated capitalism and predicted its demise, a relatively unknown American writer shot to fame with a fascinating blueprint for its replacement.
Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward 2000 – 1887 was a literary, cultural, and political sensation. First published in 1888, it was...
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy: Is this 1888 vision of a year 2000 Utopia still relevant?
The Chappelle Crisis and the Disastrous Self-Censorship of Comedy
ARTICLE
If the Chappelle Crisis has shown us anything it is that trans activists wield the power of the oppressor as they do everything in their quest to be the exceptional community in a sea...
The Chappelle Crisis and the Disastrous Self-Censorship of Comedy
On the Limitations of the ‘Lived Experience’
ARTICLE
For the better part of a decade, I immersed myself in social justice causes. I made sure I kept myself up-to-date with the latest social justice jargon, even when it was...
On the Limitations of the ‘Lived Experience’
Agora Episode 2: Bodily Autonomy
PODCAST
In this episode, Sophie and Niloo tackle the concept of bodily autonomy, in particular as it relates to abortion and the covid vaccine.
Agora Episode 2: Bodily Autonomy
On anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: A Response to Mark White’s Article in Plebity
ARTICLE
I appreciate the opportunity to respond to Mark White’s blog in Plebity arguing that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. I take up some but not all of Mark’s arguments. But Mark’s analysis is off base both conceptually and factually in several places.
On anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: A Response to Mark White’s Article in Plebity
No, Anti-Zionism does not Equal Antisemitism
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When Jews discourage debate about Israel and Jewish identity, they prevent open conversation and legitimate criticism of Israel, which leaves the field open for real...
No, Anti-Zionism does not Equal Antisemitism
‘Do Your Part’: On the Toxic Rise of Moral Grandstanding in the Pandemic
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Moral grandstanding is an ever-present, seductive force. It may feel impossible to avoid for many of us, but it is necessary to do so if...
‘Do Your Part’: On the Toxic Rise of Moral Grandstanding in the Pandemic
Agora Episode 1: Identity
PODCAST
In this first episode of the podcast series 'Agora' Sophie Watson and Niloo Daliri discuss 'identity'.
Agora Episode 1: Identity
Why the Medical Community is Abandoning Science in the Age of Denial
ARTICLE
While medical schools still use some modified version of the Hippocratic Oath, many medical schools, including Harvard, Yale, and the University of Texas are now allowing...
Why the Medical Community is Abandoning Science in the Age of Denial
Latest Free Speech Grants Go To Rachel Damiano and Katie Medart
FREE SPEECH FUND
The latest Plebity Free Speech Fund recipients are two Oregon educators, Rachel Damiano and Katie Medart. Rachel, Assistant Principal, and Katie, 7th-grade science teacher, were fired from North Middle School in July...
Latest Free Speech Grants Go To Rachel Damiano and Katie Medart
Book Banning: the Secrets of Dissident Soviet Writers
PODCAST
In this episode, Sasha is joined by Hunter College Professor Yasha Klots for a discussion on Soviet contraband literature, censorship, and what we can learn about our current climate from the history of book...
The Revival – The False Promise of Recreating the Ice Age to Save the Planet
Somewhere along the way, the environmental movement became human-centric. We turned Nature into the Environment, Animals into Resources, and Land into Conservation Sites
The Revival – The False Promise of Recreating the Ice Age to Save the Planet