No Room For Compromise
September 26, 2024
Afghanistan women, Bill Gates, carrot and stick diplomacy, Doha 3, Kezian Weir, Macron 584, Melinda French Gates, normalizing relations with the Taliban, suppression of women in history, Taliban0 Comment
Does anyone enjoy complete self-confidence, particularly women? Melinda French Gates, the former wife of Bill Gates and one of the richest women in the United States has suffered moments of uncertainty. She relates that when she and her ex-husband attended conferences, Bill Gates dr
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September 27, 2022
2022 midterm elections, a longing for sense and sensibility, balkanization of public education, Christiane Amanpour, democracy at a flexion point, Donald Trump, fantasy, Josh Hawley, LGBTQ, Melinda French Gates, pending world famine, Putin's Ukrainian war, Republican party, Sayaka Murata, the importance of inalienable rights, Thu-Huong Ha, too late to save democracy?, tribalism, women's equality
I sat down to brunch with a married couple I’ve known for years. The friendship is so comfortable, we dare to talk about religion and politics. Mostly we discuss books. The husband told me he was working through the novels of a Japanese woman who wrote fantasy. He couldn’t r
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