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For the Fourth: Taking a Break for a While

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Sumer Is Icumen In, At Last

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Summertime and the Censorship is Easy

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When Academics Attack: My Piece Critiquing Academia Is Blocked by Lefties Complaining about Censorship

Today, academics are only dangerous to those on the left, like me, who dare question its fragile sense of self-worth and “danger.”

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“The Dangerous Acaedemic Is An Extinct Species” in Current Affairs

He hadn’t really stirred up a hornet’s nest; after all, people who poke actual bees occasionally get bee stings.

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On My Back: Age, Death, and Angry Birds

For those who live in cities where cabs and public transportation are plentiful and efficient and like to go on about the evils of ride-sharing: Stuff it. I get all the issues, but if I’d been on a hour and a half long el ride (perfectly  normal in Chicago, where the public transportation system is carefully designed to keep white people safe from everyone else who has to take circuitious routes to get anywhere), I don’t think I would have survived the massive pain for that long without killing myself or screaming, a lot.  

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Abortive Reasoning: What’s Wrong with the Reproductive Rights Debate

The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences. 

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Hammers and Nails and Cats, Oh My!

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If You Think You’re a Nail, Everything Looks Like a Hammer

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Cat Ladies Rejoice!

Unless you’re an actual — and Western-based — doctor, please don’t write to me to ask what I have and to diagnose my conditions without seeing me, or to tell me which magical Eastern plant or some hour-long cooking regimen and meditation really worked for you; I’m really not interested (using a Neti pot is what gave me an ear infection that lasted for nearly two years, so you’ll understand my irritation with “natural” remedies).