Sublime

racist policy

The college had been run by a man called Mr. Carver, a man who was a great disciple of both Pitman’s and Esperanto and who tried to make his “girls” wear blindfolds when they were practicing their touch-typing. Ursula, suspecting there was more to it than monitoring their skills, led a revolt of Mr. Carver’s “girls.” “You’re such a rebel,” one of t

It was not the first time that motherhood provided the female version of civic virtue.

limited resources

frameworks through which to ask my own questions.

‘Can’t you do something more socially responsible?’ her mother used to ask, when Lucy spoke of her admiration for Nellie Bly and Veronica Guerin, for Christiane Amanpour and Susan Sontag.

Or even setting abortion aside, you’d think longtermists might express concern about the decline in fertility in industrialized countries, a question that some rationalists like Hanson have explored but EAs—80 percent of whom are childless, according to Alexander’s survey[*23]—rarely do, perhaps because it codes as conservative. At other times, tho

I snorted derision at this idea.