Confessions of an Equity-Industry Propagandist
It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.
Janet Mackay
· 8 min read
Memoir
A collection of 58 posts
Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender
It’s the same for a born female going the other way, to male—which by the way seems on recent evidence to be about as frequently desired as male to female.
Deirdre McCloskey
· 19 min read
The Man at the Arcade
Sometimes, it seemed like the world was against me. But when I did finally get the chance to read all those carefully kept files, my overwhelming impression was that they—the social workers, guardian ad litems, judges, teachers and volunteers—were trying their best.
Stephen Elliott
· 7 min read
Memories of Life at Kingdom Hall: An Alberta Schoolgirl Waits for Armageddon
Paradise was as real to us as a memory—and even though it wasn’t something concrete, our minds were already there in it.
Amber Scorah
· 10 min read
Lessons in Forgiveness, from a Bicycle Thief
Nothing is again simple, but everything is clear. This is the great lesson of empathy. We are all the bicycle thief.
Brad Cran
· 24 min read
George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times
Faludy’s greatest weapon—what really allows him to swat away the mosquitoes of passing ideologies—is his delight in sensual pleasures.
Robin Ashenden
· 6 min read
The Confessions of a Male, Feminist Sex Addict
Started as a bit of a dare. We egged each other on to visit Rosse Buurt (the red-light district) late at night, after the adults had gone to bed and we’d smoked.
Eric Frances McKillen
· 15 min read
"Heroic Guerrilla"—From Revolutionary Militant to Saint
Before his corpse was cold, the Che cult had a ready-made logo; a brand. But what exactly does it signify?
George Schifini
· 13 min read
Aristophanes’ Orphans: A Disabled Trans Woman Surveys the Grey Zone Between Love and Fetish
Everyone found themselves feeling empty and longing for their other half, be it the woman you were attached to or the man you were attached to.
Emma McAllister
· 10 min read
Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Physical Abuse: Words Aren't Violence
The ordinary challenges of life now are being reinvented as trauma, and words are conflated with violence.
Alexandra Berryhill
· 10 min read
Reclaiming Work as a Virtue
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine
· 12 min read
I Was a Female Incel
Women have acquired unprecedented sexual, economic, and political freedom in the span of a few short generations.
Hayley Morrison
· 24 min read
“Have You Found the Place that Makes You Want to Swallow Its Rhetoric Whole?”
Sadie insisted, apropos of nothing, that she was “really a radical feminist.”
Michael Rectenwald
· 17 min read