Because Quote by Bret Weinstein

“Belief systems have flourished because they have facilitated the interests of the creatures involved.”

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On a college campus, people should be equally free to be on campus, irrespective of their skin color.

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Day of Absence is a tradition at Evergreen.

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There was a time when the term liberal had been so thoroughly demonized by those on the right that I remember consciously choosing to…

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The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its perception-based relatives.…

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Terrorism is a tactic in which the primary objective is to produce fear, rather than direct harm. Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological…

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What we do have is a system in which power tends to be awarded to people on the basis that they are corruptible.

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