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OnlyFans is successful, not because it’s extreme, but because it’s innovative. Traditionally, pornography has only really allowed consumers to be passive voyeurs and therefore to see performers as not much more than sexual objects.
It’s a very interesting development in the black community and it’s a race to break that ugly symbiosis between white guilt and black development.
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.
Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary each paid a high price for defying convention. They both entered into relationships out-of-wedlock at a time when doing so was enough to put a woman out of good society.
Totally Under Control is squarely focused on the bungling, mismanagement, and incoherence of the Trump administration.
It would be a mistake to conflate “adaptive” with “good.” But similarly, it is a mistake to conflate “good” with “sustainable.”
For poor black people who live genuinely marginalized lives, and who will never set foot on a campus like Oberlin, racism is a real evil that affects their lives.
Most instructors on campus who revealed their political views also showed themselves to be a part of the Left
Empirically testing the hypothesis that racism accounts for most or all of black disadvantage poses enormous challenges.
On Friday, November 6th, between 1 and 2pm Pacific Daylight Time, I participated in an audition for the TV game-show Jeopardy!. Normally auditions are conducted in person at various regional locations around the US. As a Northern Californian, I should have been attending a live audition in San Francisco. But
Fighting identities is the true meaning of the culture wars.
It is a sign that the end of the global pandemic may—may—soon be in sight.
It is always tempting to portray one’s political opponents as consumed by some inveterate flaw or social contaminant that marks them as fallen creatures.
This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.