Day: June 4, 2014

Trigger Warnings—a Contest for the Best

Before going bungee jumping, you sign a hefty waiver that you understand that death and other serious consequences may result. Before every movie preview is a rating to give audiences an idea of how much sex and violence they will see. Many books are also dangerous, raunchy, scary. Some literary characters even hold offensive points […]

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Don’t Let Anti-Israel Boycotters Play the Victim

Representative Alan Grayson, a Democrat from Florida’s 9th District has introduced H.R. 4776, “to prohibit an institution of higher education that participates in a boycott of the Israeli government, economy, or academia from receiving funds from the U.S. federal government.” The text of the bill is not yet available, but it is not too early to say that Grayson’s […]

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