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Chicago, IL · ChicagoThe essay that follows is adapted from a talk the author delivered at the AAP (Association of American Physicians) President’s Dinner in Chicago on 5 April 2024.During a long career in the field of academic medicine, I have of course always been aware that free speech and academic freedom are critical to the success of the medical and medical research communities. But I would have viewed a claim that those values were under threat as bizarre. Sa…See the Story
Defending Academic Freedom in Higher Education and Medicine
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Residential Schools · KenoraOn the sunny afternoon of October 16, 1966, just a few weeks into the school year, 12-year-old Charlie (aka “Chanie”) Wenjack was enjoying himself on the swings in the playground at the back of Cecilia Jeffrey (CJ) Indian Residential School in northwestern Ontario. Seven days later, his lifeless body was found lying beside the railway tracks about 70 kilometres east of the Ontario–Manitoba border.Today, Charlie Wenjack is the most famous Residen…See the Story
The Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy
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Australia · AustraliaThe 2024 Simon Abundance Index was released today to coincide with the annual celebration of Earth Day. This was no coincidence: the Index aims to modify Earth Day’s empirical and metaphysical bearings. When it was first observed in 1970, Earth Day justifiably bemoaned the harm caused to the planet over the preceding two centuries by massive, though mostly beneficial, economic expansion, and called upon our species to be better stewards of the p…See the Story
More People, More Prosperity: The Simon Abundance Index
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Gaza · GazaIsraeli–Turkish relations have had their ups and downs over the past decade—mainly downs. To bolster his standing in the Arab and Muslim worlds and for religious, ideological, and political reasons, Turkey’s Islamist leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has supported both Hamas—even providing some of its military leaders with protection and a safe haven in Istanbul—and the Palestinian cause more generally. But he has held off on severing dipl…See the Story
Erdogan's Hypocrisy
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Australia · AustraliaFew debates in the mental health community have been as contentious as that over neurodiversity.Neurodiversity is an approach that views certain mental conditions not as disabilities, but as differences, within the normal variability of human brain function. The neurodiversity framework has been applied to various conditions, but it is most commonly associated with autism, and has been prominently promoted by organizations such as the Autistic S…See the Story
An Absurd Umbrella: Neurodiversity and the Autism Spectrum
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South Africa · South AfricaLiberal democracy’s claim to be a superior form of government rests on its protection of choice, freedom, political accountability, the rule of law, and civic equality. The free press and broadcast media in such states comprise a necessary pillar of this system, and they open their columns and screens to almost every sort of opinion. Liberal democracies also valorise those who seek to bring liberalism and democracy to authoritarian states, often…See the Story
Nostalgia for Confinement
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