It’s been my impression that advances in antiviral drugs in recent years have transformed the treatment of HIV/AIDS, once a death sentence. But I wondered how accurate that perception of mine was.
Continue reading →It would seem an odd choice, wouldn’t it? A movie about one of the worst scandals in the life of liberal icon and the last Kennedy man of his generation standing, Ted Kennedy? Even now that Ted is gone, why … Continue reading →
This is an excellent development. I have long been alarmed at the way the accused have been treated by universities under the Title IX campus sexual harassment and/or rape guidelines pushed by the Obama administration, and I’m glad that one … Continue reading →
Here’s the latest PC war: A children’s publisher has bowed to pressure and pulped remaining copies of a puberty guide for boys that claimed girls have breasts for ‘feeding babies and looking grown-up and attractive’. Growing Up for Boys by … Continue reading →
There’s a new book out, entitled “Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy.” But the message that lies therein is actually fairly old news. I’ve written about similar ideas before, for example here, here, and in particular here. … Continue reading →
The young man in the following video tells his political change story, and in doing so he describes a process that I think—having contemplated the process of political change myself for about a decade and a half—is the heart of … Continue reading →
The article of the day is this by Cynthia Lee entitled, “I’m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you.” Lee is “a lecturer in the computer science department at Stanford…[with] a PhD in high-performance … Continue reading →
Commenter Richard Aubrey makes a point that isn’t unusual, and seems quite logical: To say men and women differ in their capability is gender essentialism, which I am told is a Very Bad Thing. But you need to say it … Continue reading →
I don’t need to go into all the details, because if you follow this link you can get up to speed on them. But the gist of the story is that a senior engineer at Google wrote an internal memo … Continue reading →
When we get married we promise to stick by the spouse for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health. We marry a particular person for certain reasons—looks, personality, kindness, intelligence, a host of things … Continue reading →
Every time the topic of transgenderism comes up, a great many people generalize about the transgendered population. It’s often said that such people are deluded and/or mentally ill. And there’s no question that research shows a higher percentage of emotional … Continue reading →
A Trump tweet is not an official presidential declaration. That is, although Trump is the president, and in his tweets he’s usually declaring something (unless he’s asking a question), tweets are not official statements of policy that he is enacting. … Continue reading →