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Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Among the other proponents of gain-of-function research was one Anthony Fauci. In December 2011, he was the lead author—along with Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the NIH—of a Washington Post opinion piece headlined “A Flu Virus Risk Worth Taking.”
Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
Equal access to rubble is not a worthy goal.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
United States especially, policy-makersexplicitly discouraged them from cultivating Western-type desires.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Starting in the 1960s, the social and legal institutions of America were remade to try to eliminate unfair choices by people in positions of responsibility. The new legal structures reflected a deep distrust of human authority in even its more benign forms—a teacher’s authority in the classroom, or a manager’s judgments about who’s doing the job, o
... See morePhilip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
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