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“Is anyone shocked?” Picoult tweeted. “Would love to see the NYT rave about authors who aren’t male literary darlings.” Weiner’s addition was a variation on the idea she’d been articulating for years—“When a man writes about family and feelings, it’s literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same subjects, it’s romance, or a beach

Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

"We socialize with each other, and we genuinely respect each other," Judge Friedrich, a Trump appointee, said of working with Judge Boasberg, appointed by Obama. "You can become better lawyers and better people by listening to the other side."

exclusionary and illiberal beliefs. One rarely hears of South Asian students barred from their campus environmental or LGBTQ group because they sympathize with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virulently anti-Muslim brand of Hindu nationalism. Treating Zionist students as pariahs is both unfair and counterproductive. The best way to convince Jewish s

Peter Beinart • Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

Brewster said that he was “skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United States,”

Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir

With a few exceptions, by far the most important component of successful speech communities is that its moderators have faces . A core feature of bulletin boards, comment threads on blogs, and publications is that the boundaries of acceptable speech are enforced not by tech executives, the farcical Facebook Supreme Court,[xii] or distant buildings ... See more

Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs

“Easiest job in America,” we were told.

Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic

Imagining communities isn’t simply about who can be in the community, but also about who in the community can participate in imagining the community. This is why the move to undo birthright citizenship, which not-so-subtly targets people of color, must also be understood alongside the move to restrict reproductive access and repeal no-fault divorce... See more

Reproductive control and attacks on citizenship go hand in hand

The Volokh Conspiracy

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