Don’t you just love it when a reductionist decides that other people are dogmatists?
Author: Chris Walton
“It’s easier than you’d think to become science fabulous.”
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Inexcusable.
The married father of two young children who became a suicide bomber.
“How a group of turn-of-the-century Cambridge women made America safe for yoga.”
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Civil rights movements.
Winning “powerful new rights not in the streets but through the work of bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges.”
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MLK’s strategist.
Bayard Rustin’s homosexuality finds a sympathetic hearing, but his socialism does not.
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Pale yellow.
A verbal photo.
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Liberal realism.
“The realist is anti-utopian, skeptical, and, while in no sense passive, acts from the conviction that while there are many wrongs that do indeed need to be righted, and many causes worth defending, not everything is possible.”
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Doubtless.
“A contempt for doubt is a contempt for thought.”
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More on ‘The Marriage Cure.’
The New Yorker interviews Katherine Boo about the months she spent researching the government’s plan to lift people out of poverty by their wedding rings.