2 novembre 2018
2 novembre 2018
Friday Fragments - September 27, 2018
2 novembre 2018
Designing for Pushback
By Matt Reed. Wisconsin's strategy to avoid passing harassers.
This one is radioactive. Without getting too specific, for obvious reasons, I’ll try to show why. More...
2 novembre 2018
On Terrorism at a Pittsburgh Synagogue
By Eboo Patel. IFor several years during the early 2000s, my father in law was a consultant on housing in Pittsburgh. He kept a small condo in the city, and my wife and I would visit for weekends. Squirrel Hill was one of the neighborhoods we enjoyed most.Strolling on the main street after dinner one evening, we happened across a poster for a film called Paper Clips playing at the local movie theater. It was the story of an all-white, all-Christian school in rural Tennessee that had its students collect millions of paper clips as a way of learning about the specific horror that was the Holocaust, and reckoning with the broader poison of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.
Somehow, the students arranged for a German railcar that was used to transport Jews to Auschwitz to be sent to Whitwell, Tennessee so that it could be transformed into a museum housing the collected paper clips, each one representing a departed soul. The sign at the entrance read: “We ask you to pause and reflect on the evil of intolerance and hatred.”
I feel shaken to my core when I think of seeing that film just a few blocks from where a terrorist took the lives of people praying. The evil of intolerance and hatred haunts us still.
Today, I will say Muslim prayers for the Jewish dead, just as the Prophet Muhammad did when he witnessed the funeral of a Jew. I will line up eleven paper clips for the eleven departed souls. More...
2 novembre 2018
A Trip Back to Oxford
By Eboo Patel. Higher education is not just about knowledge and skills, but wisdom too. More...
2 novembre 2018
Asian Americans and Affirmative Action
By Eboo Patel. The dispute raises fascinating intellectual questions about why racism affects minority groups in such different ways. More...
2 novembre 2018
Toward an Interfaith America
By Eboo Patel. Here is how I’ve been opening my speeches on college campuses lately: Did you know that when the Mayflower Pilgrims arrived on the Atlantic seaboard and dusted off Plymouth Rock, they found the words ‘Judeo-Christian America’ etched on it. More...
2 novembre 2018
Blasey Ford / Kavanaugh and the Zarpie Culture Wars
By Eboo Patel. The psychologists then started describing to the children what Zarpies are like. With one group of four-year olds, the psychologists used sentences like, “Zarpies are scared of ladybugs.” Phrases constructed in this way are called ‘generics’. More...
2 novembre 2018
Scholarly Scandal, Academic Principles and Public Trust
By Eboo Patel. How the recent journal hoax helps us reflect on core academic principles. More...
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