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Jenny White
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Social anthropologist, novelist. Write about Turkish history, culture, politics, religion, gender, nationalism. Also Ottoman Empire (fiction). Emerita, live in Sweden. Love good literature, nature, science, art. jennywhite.net #Writer
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Or, to put it another way, debate, in the sense of the formal or informal defense of largely fixed positions, comes quite low in my list of goals/priorities as a history teacher.

Most college classes are not "free speech fora" but highly structured contexts that allow experts to help students/
September 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Obviously, a Russian attack on a US company deep into Ukraine's rear was deliberate and a clear signal of Russia's true attitude towards US and European peacemaking efforts.

Previously, Russia has launched deliberate attacks on Polish and Azerbaijani companies.

Conclusions must be drawn.
August 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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The US electorate is used to thinking of partisan combat as a choice between two slightly different flavors of constitutional liberalism deal...vanilla vs. strawberry...rather than a choice between constitutional liberalism or authoritarian illiberalism...vanilla vs. arsenic. Messaging that is hard.
August 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM