Teaching about gender

A primary school teacher discusses the ways that she has found to prevent gender bullying, and to make children feel comfortable expressing their identities. (Thanks, C!)

Louise Antony on Atheism

In the NYT’s The Stone.

I was heartened to learn recently that atheists are no longer the most reviled group in the United States: according to the political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell, we’ve been overtaken by the Tea Party. But even as I was high-fiving my fellow apostates (“We’re number two! We’re number two!”), I was wondering anew: why do so many people dislike atheists?