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The return of the housewife 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
American Housewife, Helen Ellis’ critically acclaimed, darkly comic, collection of short stories, is the latest addition to the conversation about domestic life. The book was born from Ellis’ anonymous Twitter account @WhatIDoAllDay – a question she and many other women who manage a home often get asked. “Helen Ellis Is Giving Housewives a Very Good
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Euthanasia for Depression: A Bad Idea?0
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
A few weeks ago I posted and asked questions about a significant rise in the reported number of cases of euthanasia in Belgium. This week, a new paper published in the peer-review journal JAMA Psychiatry reports the results of a study of some Dutch patients who, suffering primarily from mental illness rather than terminal physical illness,
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Tradition with Incredible Track Record Predicts the GOP Nominee 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
Whether it’s First Lady cookie bake-offs, 7-Eleven coffee drinkers, or Halloween mask sales, there have been any number of fun and admittedly crazy ways to predict the outcome of presidential elections in recent years. But there’s also a longstanding and largely successful way to predict the nominee for the party not currently in the White
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3 Reasons Why Antonin Scalia Was a Great Writer 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
Following the news of Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death on Saturday, Slate Magazine ran an article by Yury Kapgan about the Supreme Court Justice’s superb writing abilities. According to Kapgan, Scalia’s writing was made great by “the novelty of his language, his use of metaphor, and his wicked sense of humor.” Kapgan is undoubtedly correct about
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This is How a Chinese Son Begged His Parents for Forgiveness 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2016
Last week, people from around the world were moved by the above photo, which showed 46-year-old Zhang Jinli kneeling in front of his parents at a railway station, begging them for forgiveness. According to the BBC: “He was apparently begging his parents, who are both in their eighties, for forgiveness. The paper reported that Mr
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Why the Culture Wars Are Philosophy Wars 0
- Culture
- February 12, 2016
If you watched the Super Bowl you probably saw, and may even have noticed, the Doritos commercial. It contains a pregnant woman’s ultrasound image of her unborn child. The use of that image provoked a tweet of outrage from NARAL Pro-Choice America: Now you might call humanizing human fetuses an “anti-choice tactic,” but as an
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