Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.—Alexander Pope, 1738 To function in society, we rely on our ability to… View Post The post Thank You for Offending Us: In Praise of Satirists appeared first on Areo.
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Few things are as multifaceted or complex as personal identity. Yet, numerous social media posts and newspaper articles seem to suggest that we can somehow capture our unique individuality in… View Post The post Labels: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly appeared first on Areo.
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When I sat down to write my first piece for Queer Majority, I knew it would be difficult. I wanted to grow the queer movement by making it more welcoming,… View Post The post The Identifier Problem appeared first on Areo.
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Almost every academic claims to value racial diversity, but few are willing to openly advocate preferring one colleague or student over another on the basis of race alone. We acknowledge… View Post The post Diversity Doubletalk appeared first on Areo.
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Just over fifty years ago, in 1971, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was published and instantly became a countercultural classic. However, people have always struggled to… View Post The post When Fiction Is Truer Than Fact: Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo Journalism appeared first on Areo.
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Life is utterly meaningless, but this is a great opportunity to have fun creating our own meanings—that’s the latest postmodern self-help mantra. The trend known as optimistic nihilism is a… View Post The post The Optimistic Nihilists appeared first on Areo.
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When I moved to the United States as a teenager, I couldn’t speak much English. I struggled to have basic conversations, even though I had studied the language for years… View Post The post Maricón: What’s In a Name? appeared first on Areo.
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In August 2022, astrophysicist Avi Loeb—now more famous as an aspiring alien-hunter than as a highly accomplished space scientist—suggested that an interstellar object that exploded above the Pacific Ocean in… View Post The post Spamming Us from Space: SETI, Flying Saucers and the Galactic Internet appeared first on Areo.
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As the war in Ukraine continues, the pressure on western, Ukrainian and Russian spies to gain intelligence that will give one side a battlefield advantage is intense. At the same… View Post The post The Ethics of Espionage appeared first on Areo.
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The current uprising in Iran is a revolution led by women. It centres on the enforcement of hijab, but the protests are about much more than the wearing of a… View Post The post Iran’s Feminist Revolution appeared first on Areo.
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