#SOCIETY

Jim Dickinson

jim_dickinson

So at this King's thing Michael Barber just discussed this: It's from "The Coddling of the American Mind" and is an example in the book of a problematic university speech

Christopher J. Slaby

CJSlaby

There's been some talk on here lately (and always) about the adjunctification of higher ed and the nearly complete hollowing out of TT jobs and who can do what. I

Cassidy Percoco

mimicofmodes

I've heard that, somehow, TikTok is talking about women's clothing buttoning differently from men's, and the old myth that it was done for the convenience of women's maids. If you've

Andy Obuoforibo

andyRoidO

Hi, Kids! Wanna know why the Washington Monument changes colors midway up?Once upon a time, there was a Political Party that hated immigration, and ran stuff into the ground.No, not

Steven Aquino

steven_aquino

Disabled people—myself included—need to be given higher priority for Covid vaccinations. It’s a spectrum of course, but many like myself + other people with disabilities have health conditions for which

TN

terrenouvelle2

Fr. Vincent Maumus, OP: "The question which is posed is therefore this one: in the face of such profound changes in the relationship of the Church with civil society, what

Muad'Dib.α

nfreduagyeman

WARNING: Don't read if you're woke, hypersensitive, suffer from the Collective Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome proposed by Gad Saad, advocate of Political Correctness or hurt by non-adherents, believe social science

Catherine Foot

csfoot

Displays of deeply ingrained ageism are much more prevalent than the social media outcry against Lord Sumption's position on the value of life at the weekend would suggest https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/blogs/why-i-confronted-lord-sum

Moebius Stripper

moebius_strip

For 31 years, Canadians have played a grim word-association game: any mention of women in STEM evokes memories of a violent massacre. An ideologically-motivated killer set out to link these

Dr Emlyn Dodd

emlynkd

Can we *please* STOP saying that #ancient #wine was far more alcoholic than modern wine, and that’s why it was watered down A #thread why... 1/ While variable, most modern

Dan Jackson

northumbriana

Just discovered the Spanish painter Vicente López Y Portaña (1772-1850) who seemed to specialise in portraits of jowelly, unattractive Spanish aristocrats dripping in lace and gold braid. I absolutely love

Hongli Lai

honglilai

Many people see the Chinese govt's deficiencies as a result of "evil". I don't really subscribe to that. I think it has more to do with "incompetence". Building a large

Kemesha Swaby

KemeshaSwaby

Degree shaming?I keep chuckling at that. I was a straight-A science student for most of my high school life. Chose Bio (my fave), Chem, Physics and Sociology for 6th form.

Forbidden History

ForbiddenHistry

200 Year Clash of Culture & Class:The Black Aristocracy & The Black Lower Classes[History Thread] Believe it or not, but there has always been a class of Rich Black Americans.A

plant daddy

KivanBay

Every day I wish the people whining about cancel culture would realize their actual problem is with how capitalism disempowers the right to free speech inherently You're mad because the

Anneli

pigletish

My Mum died in 2009. I was 19, she was 39. She had borderline personality disorder and her death was linked to that. There was an inquest into her death

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