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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you...
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the...
The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years...
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the...
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers...
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to...
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so...
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of...
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the...
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho...
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of...
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years,...
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man...
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of...
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and...
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because...
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's...
The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other...
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing --the truly democratic thing...