Keeping Steve Jobs in perspective
Amidst all the hagiography related to Steve Jobs, we should remember to keep the man, and his accomplishments, in perspective.
Does it matter if you’re black or white? #CensusSA2011
If you think being South African is more important than being black or white – or if you think that being black or white is of no importance – consider rejecting the racial classifications endorsed in the 2011 census in South Africa.
Woo-woo fest comes to Wits
As funny as conspiracy-theorists, UFOlogists and other quacks can sometimes be, it’s a peculiar choice when universities host their conferences, or when universities award degrees in homeopathy.
Gendered epithets: Short-term battles vs. long-term wars
Gendered epithets receive less attention than racial epithets, yet they are also used to denigrate an entire section of the human population. Can we consistently ‘reclaim’ a word like ‘slut’, while aiming to eliminate gendered epithets more generally?
John Gray’s accommodationist waffle
While it’s undeniably true that what we do matters more than what we believe – given that what we do is all that anyone else ever sees – this truism can’t be deployed to evade the fact that what we believe can sometimes affect what we do.
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