A collection of 213 posts
Poetry is made of breath before any sound, any syllable, is uttered . The inhalation is the first word — and reclaiming my craft taught me how to breathe again.
The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.
No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.
When we are told that 46, XY males with DSD who identify as female are simply “women with hyperandrogenism,” or “women with high T,” we aren’t fooled.
Nothing is again simple, but everything is clear. This is the great lesson of empathy. We are all the bicycle thief.
The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty.
This research explores, through the reports of parents, a phenomenon whereby teens and young adults who did not exhibit childhood signs of gender issues appeared to suddenly identify as transgender.
For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology.
To anyone acquainted with the history and quality of American ed schools, this should come as no surprise.
When a public figure makes a mistake there seems to be a much stronger, more intense and quicker backlash.
For a time, this urban menagerie dictated my new sense of who I wanted to be. I didn’t ask questions. It was too dazzling to stain with doubts.
How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence?
Gender dysphoria was viewed as a rare and distressing condition that could be alleviated by accommodating sufferers as legal exceptions to the rules of biology.
Conspiracy theories foreclose the possibility of explanation, because they postulate unalterable conclusions in search of evidence instead of following evidence to plausible conclusions.
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.