On a side note

Violence against transwomen in Turkey
I already knew transphobic violence is all too common, but I still found these reports from Lambda Istanbul arresting. From March 10: Our Transsexual friend Ebru has been stabbed to death at her own apartment on March ...

Don't mean to be glum
...but this post about a soldier pressured into clapping for Rick Warren's invocation is remarkable: How Rick Warren's Invocation Made a U.S. Army Officer "Hate Himself". Though perhaps not a surprise if you've previously read about ...

Humanities as hobbies?
A commenter on the latest Stanley Fish blog post "The Last Professor" tries to make lemons out of lemonade out of lemons: I also think that those who love the [humanities] enough to engage in arcane arguments ...