Ann Althouse.I've been through this before, but the idea that we can assume fully "rational" employers who will infer nothing from this kind of shaming other than "these women are hot!" is living in some alternate universe. As Jill says, "[f]or women who aren’t as public...
A brilliant post by Belle Waring (but I repeat myself) about the crude reductionism and misogynist (and, for that matter, misandrist) double standards of Laura Sessions Stepp and her even.
I found this article fascinating:Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach.
A department at my university recently interviewed a job candidate who spent about 30 minutes at dinner one evening explaining how s/he and his/her partner spend their free time constructing medieval suits of armor. We also learned in due course that the candidate had been "asked...
Kingdaddy makes an interesting comparison:If you look at Japan then, and the United States now, you might see some familiar faces. A determined faction of aggrieved nationalists, having gambled the.
Commenter (and blogger) Bean raises some interesting points with respect to this post. I'll respond to each point separately:First, while I agree that the current iteration of abortion law is.
Shorter Victor Davis Hanson:I welcome the triumphant return of comic book standards of right and wrong in this degenerate age, a time when irritating postmodernist spoilsports constantly insist that moral questions might have complex answers. He's talking about the film 300, based on the Frank Miller...
Jean Baudrillard did not happen.
Yglesias notes that Maverick McStraightTalk "has the misfortune of being both the most conservative candidate in the race and the one most hated by conservatives." It's quite strange, and is.
Libby convicted on 4 of 5 counts.
Jessie Hill has an interesting three-part series about potentially overturning Roe at PrawfsBlawg. [HT: Volokh Conspiracy.] The long version of what I have to say on the issue can be.
Ayn Rand, high priestess of tedium, speaking to the the graduating class of cadets at West Point, 6 March 1974:Something called "the military-industrial complex"--which is a myth or worse--is being.