Entries by dpogreba

Is Forced Fatherhood Fair?

Laurie Shrage outlines the argument: The political philosopher Elizabeth Brake has argued that our policies should give men who accidentally impregnate a woman more options, and that feminists should oppose policies that make fatherhood compulsory. In a 2005 article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy she wrote, “if women’s partial responsibility for pregnancy does not […]

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Teachers: Open Your Windows

All these years, I have been right: a classroom with an open window is better for students. Amanda Erickson reports: Not so long ago, elementary school teachers regulated classroom temperature by opening up a window or cracking a door when it got too hot. These days, of course, modern school buildings have fancier climate control […]

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NSA Whistleblower: Hero or Not?

In the week following the public declaration that low-level contractor Edward Snowden leaked the information about the NSA spying program, there has been a great deal of debate about his actions. The New Yorker offered two assessments of his actions worth reading. Jeffrey Toobin: Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former C.I.A. employee and current government contractor, […]

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Bird Killing Cats

Jessica Parker explores the war between those who love cats and those who love birds: “The population has tripled over the past 40 years. Tripled,” says George Fenwick. Wild of eye and George Lucas of hair, Fenwick runs the American Bird Conservancy, an organization he founded back in the early nineties after watching his neighbor’s […]

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