Hate crimes surged nearly 12 percent between 2020 and 2021, according to updated statistics released by the F.B.I. on Monday, but the data is far from complete and the actual numbers are likely to be higher, experts tracking the rise in bias-fueled violence said. (Thrush, The New York Times)
Read MoreAccording to Michael Coan, an associate professor of jewelry design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, crosses are not an exclusively Christian symbol. “They existed thousands of years before Christianity,” he said. “Crosses have been appropriated heavily by the Christian faith, but it’s not the only one to use them.” (Dukes, The New York Times)
Read MoreEugénie Bastié, 31, has angered leftwingers with an essay, Sauver la Différence des Sexes (Save the Difference Between the Sexes), in which she argues against the arrival in France of British and American theories she says involve a “totalitarian” cancel culture and the negation of biological realities. (Sage, The TImes UK)
Read MoreScottish ministers have agreed to consider widening the sex codes on medical records to include a third gender of non-binary and will explore ways to cement their legal status in a similar way to that afforded to trans people under the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Act. (Boothman, The Times UK)
Read MoreThe 95th Academy Awards aired Sunday night on ABC. [Check out] the full list of 2023 Academy Award nominees, with winners marked in bold. (Sarmiento, NPR)
Read MoreThe odds-on favorite to win best picture at this weekend’s Oscars is not the best or even second-best movie among the nominees — those would be “Tár” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” respectively — but rather a movie that a remarkable number of people just passionately loved: “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” (Douthat, The New York Times)
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