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Morris Wolfe

Essays, New & Selected

  • About Morris Wolfe
  • Table of Contents
    • The Essays
      • Introduction
      • Encyclopaedia Britannica: The Final Edition
      • Growing Up With a Three-Minute Attention Span
      • Theodor Herzl: Charlatan or Genius
      • Jolts Per Minute
      • R.D. Laing
      • WASP Racism
      • MTM TV
      • The Methodism in Their Madness
      • That Long Distance Feeling
      • Bill 101
      • Maclear’s Vietnam
      • The October Crisis: Deference to Authority
      • The TV Critic: Tumbleweed in an Arid Wasteland
      • Watching Big Brother
      • The Shunning of a Pro-Palestinian Rabbi
      • The Struggle for Equity at OCA
      • Tim Buck, Too
      • The View From the Centre
      • Showboat: To See or Not to See
      • Dr. Fabrikant’s Solution
      • The Sexist Science of Gordon Freeman
      • Martin’s Room
      • Bill Poole’s Wonderful Life
      • Acknowledgements
      • Essays, New & Selected, by Morris Wolfe
Morris Wolfe

Essays, New & Selected

  • Essays, Previously Unpublished

The Sexist Science of Gordon Freeman

The following essay tells a story as important as that of Valery Fabrikant. But the Gordon Freeman affair involves no dead bodies, not even any blood, so it wasn’t as easy to find a publisher. It concerns sexism in the…

  • Morris Wolfe
  • March 9, 1998
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Morris Wolfe (1938-2021)
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Knowing the alphabet doesn’t make one literate any more than knowing the names of tools makes one a carpenter.

— Morris Wolfe

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