Author Archives: winterSmith

S&R Honors: Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

We recently lost one of the greatest minds on the planet when physicist Stephen Hawking died at age 76. Much has been written about the man’s accomplishments, and I suspect this will continue to be the case for a long time – perhaps centuries. I have nothing to add to those analyses, but, being the publisher of a site called

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Enough is enough: it’s time for America to adopt hate speech laws

Guy-Fawkes-Mask

The facts are clear: freedom has nothing to do with America’s narrow conception of “free speech.” According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics: U.S. residents experienced an average of 250,000 hate crime victimizations each year from 2004 to 2015. There was no statistically significant change in the annual rate of violent hate crime victimization from 2004 to 2015 (about 0.7

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