“I Am What I Say I Am” and Other Fictions

  . . . . Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: . . . myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame” _____________________________________________________________ One...
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HOT TOPIC: Racism Violates Human Exceptionalism: Wesley J. Smith

Racism Violates Human Exceptionalism From a human exceptionalist perspective, racism is evil because it treats inherent equals as if they are unequal. And in the fiction, the racist justifies discriminating against, denigrating, and/or objectifying the targeted victim based on...
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