Not so fondly, Loomis remembers 18th-century serial rapist and diarist William Byrd II. But since Byrd clearly didn't rape every woman with whom he came into contact, we should resist feeling any "autopilot compassion" for the "Tallow-faced Wench" whose injured arm presented no obstacle to...
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Bo Yibo, last of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party, has shuffled off his mortal coil. Bo Yibo is one of the very last of the Long March generation,.
In light of the recent discussion about rape on campus, it's particularly worth reading Courtney Martin's article about this country's dearth of rational sex education and the extent to which.
From the recent Times article about attempts to turn Atlas Shrugged into a movie:Under Mr. Aglialoro’s sponsorship a succession of writers and producers developed at least four scripts. One writer was Mr. Peikoff’s ex-wife, Cynthia Peikoff, who had been Rand’s typist. Some of the scripts,...
So, I'm sitting in my office minding my own business when I hear dripping. My office is on the fourth floor of Patterson Office Tower, so I don't typically worry.
Make sure to wish Jane well.
For complicated reasons, I actually head-butted my department's printer today. I don't really know what was going on in my brain at the time, but I'm pretty sure I decided that head-butting the printer was less aggressive than simply punching it. Now I'm not so...
With respect to Sunday's appalling New York Times op-ed making a series of disingenuous excuses for a rapist, Amanda found a Harvard Crimson article that details the faculty debate on.
Yglesias and Atrios briefly discuss the failure of US diplomacy prior to the first Gulf War. Atrios wonders if the war could have been avoided, and Yglesias allows that while.
Marty Peretz, while engaging in some pro forma lunacy about the Middle East, unleashes some quite original lunacy:Who knows what animates Gorbachev? Maybe he hopes just to be remembered. He won't be. Certainly not by the Russian people. A passing figure. Not even one on...
I'll resist the temptation to joke about how I was going to post on this until -- you know -- other stuff came up.In 1978, only about 5% of the.
Minor Rome spoilers, but if they're actually spoilers for you then you need to go and read a damn history book...I was untroubled by the exclusion of Antony's funeral oration.