Wednesday 15 February 2023

Replace Female with ‘Egg-producing’ and avoid using the term ‘fitness’

Woke scientists push to get rid of ‘harmful’ phrases.



Of Snark and Smarm

One of the most influential essays of the 21st century. 



Recent College Grads

Not ‘emotionally’ ready for work.



Berlin University Tells Students Not to Call Cops on Sex Offender.

Can you guess why?



San Francisco Progressive Good Intentions

Run into big government



Colombia Medical Students Create And Recite

New Hippocratic Oath with pledges to ‘woke ideology.’



Britain’s Grooming Gangs

Where is the moral outrage



Hungary Must Resist America’s Woke Imperialism

The Biden White House is desperate to export its identitarian ideology.



Monday 13 February 2023

Why Is Every Character Suddenly An ‘Antihero’ Now?

What happens when no one can call a villain a villain.



Across the Globe, Government Health Care Systems Are Failing Us

By restricting private health care choices, beloved single-payer systems were doomed from the start.



Home is a Cup of Tea

The story of a search for home through the different teas discovered while traveling.



Magen David and Me

After facing persecution in the former Soviet Union and a new wave of antisemitism in the United States,  Jewishness on display.



Honey Bees, Worker Bees, and the Economic Violence of Land Grabs

Environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.



Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning)

A grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.



Holding the Pain

The shooting at Sandy Hook and survivors’ stories.



The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women

How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.



I Had a Friend. He Dreamed of Israel.

After 35 years, a visit to a grave, and to a different country.



The Art of Losing Friends and Alienating People

The ways in which friendships end as one gets older.



(Who Gets to) Just Up and Move

Within the nature of migration, and realizes there are two places you can never escape: the planet and your own head.



Addiction’s Seismic Effects on a Family

A mother confronts the painful truths of trying to save a son who’s a danger not only to himself, but to the rest of the family as well.



Remembering the Things That Remain

A Polish artist invites a journalist to dig into disturbing remnants from the Holocaust that Poland would rather keep buried.



On Solitude (and Isolation and Loneliness [and Brackets])

Solitude (and isolation [and loneliness]), viewing it through the lens of punctuation.



Marmalade: A Very British Obsession

Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth



Repetitive Stress

On injury, compensation, and living with pain.



All That Glitters

Greed, grift, and murder in the black market for gold.



The Cult That Promises to Cure Addiction

For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.



Los Desaparecidos

Women in Sinaloa, Mexico, are searching for the remains of ‘disappeared’ loved ones — and cooking to keep their memories of the dead alive.



The Cabin on the Mountain

“Sometimes, the mechanism of the answer is something ludicrously complex, a thing that must be pieced out bit by bit. Other times, the solution requires retooling your perspective.”



Our Braided Bread

In my native New York, I don’t feel the need to perfume the air around me with the sweet scent of challah. But here in Iowa, there is a void I need to fill.



‘A Mystery of Mysteries’

Edgar Allan Poe’s unexplained, anguished end.



Woke Biologists Claim Now

Even wild animals are suffering from the effects of systemic racism.



New Hampshire School District Bans

Urinals.



The Retreat From Globalism

People don’t want to be squelched by big business or big government.