Mark Goldblatt and the Art of Persuasion

“I cannot argue with his characterization of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes as a ‘triumvirate of stooges,’ but with me, he is preaching to the choir. How will he convince the postmodernists?”

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Doing the Woke

“The more these women agreed to be shamed for their ‘whiteness,’ the more I wondered why doing so made them feel ethical. Feeling shame makes nobody ethical. Just uncomfortable.”

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Abortion and the Mythic Mother

(Wassana Somsakorn/Alamy)

They do not realize good mothering comes from fearlessness. Few things promote more fear than being deprived of control of one’s own body.”

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