Yesterday I mentioned a 'This I Believe' bit on NPR by a former professor at the University of Tehran who lost her gig for not wearing a veil and for thinking.
Here's the link.
She says it well. And as someone who has been surprised to find narrow minded fundamentalists to be more intelligent (at times) that the supposedly 'open minded,' I think her supporters indicate a universal quality.
Just because someone thinks, like Ignatius Reilly, that progress for the better stopped in the Middle Ages, that doesn't mean they lack the capacity for critical thinking. It may not even mean they're wrong, but illustrating that might take something like free expression. Literature.
Tell me a story...
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