Tag: Critical

Show, don’t tell. Hook the reader with the first line. Connect to the reader emotionally. You’ve all read these writerly exhortations along with the following: Avoid overuse of the passive voice. Don’t use too many adverbs. Put your damn commas in the proper place. ...

Glasgow is hosting top leaders the world over. It’s a great place to have it. If there is any place in the world that can scare politicians into doing something, it’s Glasgow. Remember the Glasgow Airport attack when terrorists rammed their Jeep loaded with propane canisters...

The World Wildlife Fund defines biodiversity as “all the different kinds of life you’ll find in one area — the variety of animals, plants, fungi, and even microorganisms like bacteria that make up our natural world. Each of these species and organisms work together in eco...

The subject of truth in this case is whether the stuff mentioned in the scripture is real or not. The basis is based primarily on tangible evidence, followed by written evidence, followed by logical reasoning. Indian civilization is at least in the range of 200,000 years to 400,000...

When Maya Forstater won her right to have her personal beliefs about sex recognised by the UK courts, she proclaimed it as a moral victory of sex over gender ideology. That she ended up in court in part because she was part of a private group chat where she exhibited transphobic views often gets los...

When Maya Forstater won her right to have her personal beliefs about sex recognised by the UK courts, she proclaimed it as a moral victory of sex over gender ideology. That she ended up in court in part because she was part of a private group chat where she exhibited transphobic views often gets los...

Someone I frequently run into at the coffee shop where I do most of my writing recently asked me where I get my news. Over 30 years ago, it was an easy question to answer. We had NBC, CBS and ABC on television. The local newspaper came every morning. There weren’t thousands of so-called ...

Critical Race Theory (CRT) draws from a broad literature base in law, social sciences, ethnic and women’s studies, and history. Its origins lie in the law and the development of Critical Legal Studies in the late 1970s and 1980s as an approach to critiquing the slow pace of Civil Rights legisl...

Someone asked me why I wrote an article about Maya Forstater, and it set me thinking about why my personal focus has shifted over the last year onto gender critical beliefs. My honest answer is that as a research academic I am better placed than most to deconstruct their evidence, critique it, and p...

Like millions of others, I have obsessively watched episode after episode of shows from the Law & Order franchise — Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial By Jury, Law & Order: Los Angeles&nbs...

This paper uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to examine the relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court’s (the Court) decisions on affirmative action in school admissions and society’s progress toward educational equity. Reviewing the history of the Court’s affirmative...

Earlier this week, I co-presented a workshop on “critical citation practice”. Delivered for our postgraduate researchers, the workshop provided a space to critically reflect on who we read, who we cite and how we search. This is the first time my team has delivered something like this, a...

If you Google “how decisions are made” you’ll find a theory that says people gather information, narrow choices, review the evidence, and choose among alternatives. Maybe this is how Star Trek’s Spock made decisions, but neuroscience and brain scans tell a different story. ...

In today’s digital age, we are inundated with an unprecedented volume of information. The advent of the internet and social media platforms has transformed the way we access news, opinions, and data. This constant stream of content, while beneficial in many ways, has also led to challenges in ...

The head, the heart, and the gut hold immense capabilities to gather, process, store, and act upon information. They handle intricate operations (both dependently and independently) using their own dedicated nervous systems — complete with billions of neurons that allow them to grow, flex, and...

The increased high-speed operation of our devices showcases society’s technological acceleration. Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn now mediate swift and frictionless interactions and messages. Technological acceleration is especially advanced in the digital sector and further accelerates the pa...

This thought-provoking work, published in 2015, continues to attract attention and spark discussions on the origins of our species. As a fellow atheist and historian, Harari presents a compelling narrative that seeks to explain the evolution of humanity in purely scientific and materialist...

Phoebe Philo and Hedi Slimanes’ varying creative outlooks for Celine caused a rift for the Celine consumer who were accustomed to Philo’s sophisticated enclothed cognition. Since Philo’s planned departure after her Spring / Summer 2018 presentation and the commencement of...

John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson were prominent literary figures during the late 17th and 18th centuries, and each made significant contributions to English literature and literary criticism. Their critical views and literary works were instrumental in shaping the literary landscape o...