To the people who are claiming some vast conspiracy on VBD to provide biased information, here is how I see it:
1. Not a single person who believes there is vast VB consipiracy to use VBD as some insidious brainwashing tool has ever ever contacted me with interest in contributing a piece to VBD.
2. […]
It looks like someone has decided to take on quite an ambitious project over on YouTube: put all the songs on 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields to video. The artist seems to be quite a talented director:
College is a great experience that millions of students look forward to every year. I myself have been in college for a total of 6 years and have obtained a B.A. in communications as well as a MBA. After attending college I started working and realized that college does not prepare you for the real […]
Franken said he’s also been reaching out to campaign veterans, pollsters and others to get their advice. While people have been encouraging, Franken said, they’ve also warned about possible pitfalls.
One in particular, Franken relayed: “It’s unknown how people will respond to a comedian running for the Senate. I need to figure out a way to […]
The group’s official statement says: “In today’s political climate, it is harder than ever for academics to defend open debate. Restrictive legislation and the bureaucratic rules and regulations of quangos and of universities themselves have undermined academic freedom.
“Many academics are fearful of upsetting managers and politicians by expressing controversial opinions. Afraid to challenge mainstream […]
Utilitarianism, which was supposed to be the most precise and hard-headed of moral arguments, turns out to be the most speculative and arbitrary. For we have to assign values where there is no agreed valuation, no recognised hierarchy of value, no market mechanism for determining the positive or negative worth of different acts and outcomes. […]