Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: July-August 2016

New Oxford Notes: July-August 2016

Breaking the Bathroom Barrier: A Civil-Rights Imperative?

If transgender people truly want "equal protection under the law," they shouldn't be treated as a separate class of people, distinct from the rest of society. This is what the inaptly named nondiscrimination laws would do.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Terror at the Disco: Why the Experts Always Come Up Empty

Again after the Orlando massacre, the national conversation about anti-gay hatred studiously avoided any mention of Islam and the Muslim view of homosexuality. Anger was directed primarily at conservative Christians.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

On the Usefulness of Anger

Aquinas does not enjoin us to refrain from anger. Rather, he teaches that anger is essential in the ensemble of human passions that assist man in being himself.

Last Things

A high Calvinist’s view of the “Stages of progression regarding the early church fathers.” A…

Outrageous Thoughts on War and Peace

We spent trillions for war while our physical and social infrastructure crumbled, and our families and schools became dysfunctional and our inner cities uninhabitable.