David Brooks New York Times Today’s campus activists are not only going after actual acts of discrimination — which is admirable. They are also going after incorrect thought — impiety and blasphemy. They are going after people for simply failing to show sufficient deference to and respect for the etiquette they hold dear. They sometimes…
There is a collision course between feminists and transgender activists. Elinor Burkett New York Times Elinor Burkett is a journalist, a former professor of women’s studies and an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker. Do women and men have different brains? Back when Lawrence H. Summers was president of Harvard and suggested that they did, the reaction was…
David Amsdent The New York Times En décidant d’honorer la mémoire des esclaves, la plantation Whitney, située à 50 kilomètres de la Nouvelle-Orléans, a pris le contrepied de ses voisines, restaurées à l’intention des touristes blancs. (The New York Times, David Amsdent)
Confessions of a Corporate Spy George Chidi Revue Inc. What do you think it means to be an expert in “hard-to-get elicitation”? It means people tell you things. A competitive intelligence consultant discusses things that can help a business–at the expense of another. — The Secret Keeper Jules Kroll and the world of corporate…
La République des Livres (…) Et le régime ? Il laisse faire, qu’il s’agisse des islamistes, des conservateurs, des jaloux, des nationalistes, des communistes, de ceux qui sont dans une posture de modernité mais n’arrivent pas à choisir, sans oublier les élites de gauche algéroises horrifiées à l’idée qu’à Oran un écrivain s’enrichisse avec sa plume !…
Mark Binelli New York Times For years, conditions inside the United States’ only federal supermax facility were largely a mystery. But a landmark lawsuit is finally revealing the harsh world within. It was designed to be escape-proof, the Alcatraz of the Rockies, a place to incarcerate the worst, most unredeemable class of criminal — “a…
Jessica Benko New York Times The goal of the Norwegian penal system is to get inmates out of it. — Le Kiosque a déjà publié : Petite histoire des prisons Extrait La prison, comme châtiment, est une invention récente. Pendant longtemps, en fait jusqu’au XIXe siècle, les condamnés étaient exécutés, torturés, exilés ou humiliés en public. Les…
The New York Times Sweden’s pioneering law criminalizing the purchase of sex while allowing its sale — putting the criminal burden on the buyer, not the prostitute, while providing more assistance to women who want to stop selling sex — has been considered a success and a model for other countries since it was introduced…