1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1677+ words) Years of talking dirty politics—at two dollars a minute—offered a window into the sexual psychology of the modern right. As a Flirt (the site's term of art for operators), I had three notable assets: a velvet voice I…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (359+ words) The leading scholar and philosopher responds to critics of “gender ideology,” both from the right and left. I want to start with a quote from your newest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, where you say, In the United States, at…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (294+ words) Written in 1949, “The Second Sex” still has vital insights for feminists in today's world. The fact that so much of what she writes still manages to ring true in the 21st century speaks both to how straightforward her rhetoric is, and…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (558+ words) From government-funded menstruation classes to canceling student loan forgiveness, the campaign for more babies goes beyond banning abortion. Last year, at a Women’s History Month event, Donald Trump called himself the “fertilization president.” The moniker is an obviously pronatalist one,…...

4+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (1352+ words) Home ❧ Current Affairs - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. Old People Aren’t The Problem A new book argues that America is becoming a “gerontocracy” and we need to restrict the power of older Americans. But the…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (170+ words) The male beauty influencer is a living demonstration of the perils of “maximization.” Where do you rank male beauty on the kind of scale of what's important? Like higher than kindness or something? Really? And why is that? Well, because…...

8+ mon, 1+ day ago   (674+ words) A Magazine of Politics and Culture The producers of “Kid Nation” expected chaos when they dropped 40 children in the desert. What they got was cooperation—until adults intervened. The year is 2007 and a school bus filled with several dozen kids…...