A collection of 165 posts
In reducing sex to a basic mechanical function in the service of health, we have covered the uniquely human parts of ourselves that should be engaged during sex and lost precisely what makes sex sexy—what transforms its mechanics into mystery.
The denial of tragedy inevitably results in the denial of what makes us human, snipping the invisible thread that connects us to the lives of other people and draining the individual of moral gravity.
The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported the age-standardised mortality rate in England each year going back to 2001.
No matter what a person’s skin color or ideology, encouraging them to feel ashamed about who they are is never conducive to good mental health.
The smileys are not bad people. They are not necessarily unintelligent people. They are unhappy people wearing a mask of happiness, confused and beaten and searching for an easy answer.
The money offered by benevolent citizens and the abundance of cheap drugs act as a magnet for the area.
Vasectomies were illegal in France up until 2001. A Napoleonic code which forbade self mutilation was applied to vasectomies used for contraception.
The very idea of “a dichotomous sex-classification system” is dubious, the authors believe.
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
Contrary to popular opinion, alternative medicine is not always harmless, and when patients use it instead of conventional medical treatment, it can even be deadly.
What is unique about our time is not “the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,” as Thucydides put it, but the success of scientists in bringing many such spectacles to an end.
Totally Under Control is squarely focused on the bungling, mismanagement, and incoherence of the Trump administration.
This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.
We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.