
New Oxford Notes: November 2016

Big Brother North of the Border
Canada is writing laws based on gender defined as a sense, an experience, and the result of expression: dress, hair, make-up, body language, voice, name, and personal pronoun use.
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Return of an Imaginary Menace
Dire warnings of the impending overthrow of American institutions by Christian theocrats -- remember the term 'American Taliban'? -- never came close to coming to pass.
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