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  • Brave New World: Do you remember this theme?

    Brave New World: Do you remember this theme?0

    While sex and soma are themes few can forget from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a deeper current that runs through the book is actually the government-managed economy, with its desires for employment through industrial production and massive, conspicuous consumption. To achieve such control, the government breeds different classes of people and then brainwashes them

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  • Brace Yourselves: America is Losing 10 Awesome Celebrities

    Brace Yourselves: America is Losing 10 Awesome Celebrities0

    Not for the first time, many distinguished actors, performers, and otherwise notable figures promised they would do the unthinkable if the wrong candidate got elected: they’d remove themselves from America and move to Mexico. Check that, I guess it’s Canada. Anyway, it’s an unusual threat if for no other reason than it’s palpably narcissistic. The

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  • Boys Will Be Boys … or Will They?

    Boys Will Be Boys … or Will They?15

    In January, my young friend Anna and I inventoried authors by gender on the “New Fiction” shelves of our public library. That count came to 123 novels and short story collections written by women, 64 authored by men. The disparity came as no thunderbolt to me, as I’d noticed for several years the number of

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  • Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men

    Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men2

    A basic premise of the apprenticeship model is that people best learn by example.   Thus, if you want to become a skilled piano player, you study for years under a virtuoso. If you want to be a good electrician, you work under a master electrician for a period of time. And if you want

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  • Boys in White Dresses with Blue Satin Sashes?

    Boys in White Dresses with Blue Satin Sashes?0

    Last week, Bloomberg Business reported a new fashion trend for men: womenswear. “In January, Gucci’s menswear runway collection was an eye-opener. … It was because the men on the runway looked … like women. In fact, some of them were women—an increasing trend in menswear shows. Models of both genders—waifish male models and boyish female models alike—were

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  • Boys in Skirts: Genius Protest or Irrational Tantrum?

    Boys in Skirts: Genius Protest or Irrational Tantrum?0

    Early this morning, BBC correspondent Simon Hall tweeted the following pictures of a handful of male students at Isca Academy in Exeter. Boys at Isca Academy in Exeter wear skirts to school in protest at not being allowed to wear shorts in hot weather. pic.twitter.com/XHrffnSQEN — Simon Hall (@SimonHallNews) June 22, 2017 According to The

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