To my brand-new chum, Sarah Palin. Dear Mrs. Palin, Of course I would be happy to meet with […]
Category Archive: Publications
Freedom should trump privacy. It’s been a year since Neda Agha Soltan died. Since her dark eyes blazed […]
Wouldn’t it be great if there were just one character of real substance in the fading female pantheon […]
The four main characters of used to be just like us. In the latest film, they’ve become one-dimensional […]
Why we should stop talking about Elena Kagan’s sexuality. You know things are getting a little grim when […]
When bad mothers give us hope. When reporters told Doris Lessing she had won a Nobel Prize in […]
Why the search for alien life matters. “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer […]
Why historians salivate over Twitter. The hue and cry about the Library of Congress acquiring the Twitter archive, […]
A quiet revolution in male behavior. Infidelity is one thing between a man and his maker, declared the […]
And why nations with more progressive attitudes about homosexuality are happier and healthier. “Our lives begin to end […]