disentwine

Worthy statisticians who tried to disentwine HIV from other variables as a diabetes risk factor have reached two conclusions on whether HIV alone can lead to diabetes: Yes, it can.

The wartime environment makes one set of motivations difficult to disentwine from the other.

Kittelstrom's gift is that she disentwines liberalism and secularism, demonstrating that antique ex-Calvinists actually tilled much of the ground for a later birth of pluralism, and that our contemporary faith in human equality and human dignity owe much to the Romantic and Transcendentalist notion of "universal inner divinity." While Kittelstrom celebrates this strand of liberalism, she doesn't hesitate to show how its historical context sometimes hindered it from perceiving problems--the real position of women in society, the actual effects of racism, and so on.