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Shulamith Firestone’s fundamental battle is with the grip which normalcy and conformity have on every human life

What Iran Might Do When It Has Nothing to Lose

Without Science, America’s Prosperity Is At Risk

Regime Change in Cuba: 'Just a Matter of Time'

No Second Amendment "Right to Build Solar-Powered Greenhouses"

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Philosophy Prof, Discussion of Adult-Child Sex Bans, and the First Amendment

The 'Fairness' Law That Could Raise Grocery Prices for New Yorkers

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled 

Alison Gopnik: “Generative” AI is a summarizing machine, not a genuinely intelligent agent — like, say, a kitten

A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

Could the President Invoke the Alien Enemies Act in Response to the "British Invasion" of Rock Stars Like the Beatles?

Typists, editors, and arbiters of art. Literary amanuenses like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot shaped modern literature

"It’s weird: in Updike’s teenage letters he sounds preternaturally sophisticated; in his forties, he sounds like a horny kid"

Some Dogs Learn New Words Just Like Toddlers Do

Jobs Are Down While the U.S. Spends $2 Billion a Day on War With Iran

What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals

It Looks Like the End of the Road for Rideshare Alternative Empower in D.C.