Under Deconstruction

20Dec08

Law schools sell their programs on two major claims, apart from whatever they have in the class size/library size/clinics department: “Law school will change you” and “Learning the law teaches you how to think.”
Naturally, what they *don’t* tell you is that law teaches you to think narrowly, and law school may turn you into [...]

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Defining “Oppression”

04Dec08

This post about the Islamic Fashion Festival is lovely, and the pictures are marvelous. The comments, however, are…less than great. Over 50% crap, actually, despite the valiant attempts of a few level-headed folk trying to talk sense over the great void of xenophobic nonsense.
I did, however, finally learn what “oppressed” and “liberated” [...]

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