The general method, or rather hustle, of the Confidence Man Steven Pinker is to use evidence of greater material well-being to justify the value judgment that human life has never ...
When I reached maturity, or at any rate stopped growing, I was of average height. Now I am below average height, the world having grown taller than I in the meantime. In the ...
This last political season, a 29-year-old bartender named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described “radical,” came “dancing across the water” to conquer the Democratic ...
There was once a medical student of my acquaintance who consistently scored lower marks on multiple-choice examination papers than could have been expected by chance, which I ...
Like practically everyone else, I look at my phone or turn on my computer as soon as I wake to find out what has happened in the world in my temporary absence from it. You can ...
For a number of years I have been fighting a lonely one-man (or should I say one-person?) battle against self-esteem—not my own, of course, because I have just the right amount, ...
Sitting in two airports last week, in Paris and Riga, it suddenly occurred to me that I had not seen a single person who was smartly, let alone elegantly, dressed (I do not ...
Just as there’s a tremendous difference between acting ethically and feeling the need to announce to the world that you’re an ethical person, there is also a massive ...
For the past three months or so I have suffered from, or at least experienced, a condition called discoid eczema on the instep of the sole of my right foot. It is always ...
Within the conventions of English drag comedy, the most familiar character is what the Monty Python troupe dubbed "the pepperpot": a frumpy, lumpy menopausal matron, ...
A group of biologically female good ol" boys gathers every week at Oakland's girls-only Mills College to discuss how oppressed they feel by gender-specific pronouns. These ...
I was certain I still had my copy of the book on the same shelf as my long-untouched copies of The Second Sex, The Female Eunuch, and The Feminine Mystique. After learning of the ...
In The Odyssey, Theoclymenus asks of Telemachus, "Among men, who are you? Tell me also of your city and parents." Old-fashioned folks who haven’t been poisoned by ...
The eminently credible mainstream media was all aflame last Tuesday with reports that a prominent lesbian blogger in Syria had been captured by armed-and-hairy secret police who ...
"Never heard of you...". What generosity of spirit. Some thirteen years ago now, the fellow had marched across a busy airport departure hall in order to deliver his ...
"This is our country, our land, and our lifestyle. If you are not happy"then Leave." At last a politician in possession of testicles and a backbone. By definition ...
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