“Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.” WayMayDreamMightInterestingStudyImagineDangerIndustryLawyerGlobal WarmingSuspectsJuryAmusedMinimizingJurors Author:David Ignatius
“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.” HumansReasonPhilosophyHelpingPoliticalNaturalStudyDangerSucceedDemandMajorsPrejudiceMethodLocalsBiasPolitical Philosophy Author:Raymond Geuss
“For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.” ChildrenImportantKidsSchoolStudyCuttingStreetsHavensDangerTelevisionSafeLibraryTemptationSafe PlacesNumbing Author:Scott Turow
“...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.” WorldMayStudyFeminismDangerWallDegreesFeministContemplationNarcissismAbsorbing Book:A woman of fifty Source: A woman of fifty
“For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they are targeted by the police, and are constantly in danger of being misread in public spaces.” FactsGivenBlackSpaceStudyFiguresDangerWeightPoliceMalesCarrieBlack Males Author:Claudia Rankine