The Briefing 10-03-14

Podcast Transcript

1) Rise of ISIS reveals world is not becoming less religious

The New Crusades, Bloomberg Businessweek (Pankaj Mishra)

2) Fall of Arab civilization reminder of danger of seeds of barbarism to any civilization

The Barbarians Within Our Gates, Politico Magazine (Hisham Melham)

3) Consent laws replace objectivity of marriage with subjective experience as basis of morality 

Consensual Sex: There’s an App for That, Slate, (Amanda Hess)

4) Individualized preferred gender pronouns underline centrality of gender to human identity

What’s Your PGP?, Chronicle of Higher Education (Allan Metcalf)

What the heck is a “PGP”?, Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools

When no gender fits: A quest to be seen as just a person, Washington Post (Monica Hesse)