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8. Would your efforts be more useful in places like, say, Afghanistan, where women are more systematically oppressed?
Like any issue, feminist issues exist in all places and contexts, not just those that Westerners deem “oppressive” such as veiled women in Afghanistan. A women’s center would be extremely useful to women at Harvard considering the splintered and disappearing history of...
FBI director Robert Mueller repeatedly pledges to leave no stone unturned in investigating terrorism--to the widespread applause of those who apparently think that it is only others whose privacy or civil rights can be violated by this aggressive posture. The supposition here is that the FBI is not spying...
Everyone acknowledges that it is only useful intelligence that counts. Gathering troves of information on people just clutters the picture and (besides upsetting innocent folks) makes connecting the dots harder. Quality trumps quantity. Homing in on known terrorists, for example, through well-placed confidential sources or possibly by electronic surveillance...
By getting us to focus on eating nutrient-rich foods instead of yelling about which types of junk will kill us, Agatston has ironically got people to stop being on diets and just start eating healthy. Now he is planning to write a book about heart-disease prevention--the book...