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Manifestos, violence and BS in America (opens the original)
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Could a 40-year-old essay called On Bullshit really explain it all? All that’s been going on for the past eleven years, right up to the present moment? Pretty much. I learned about this philosophical mini-treatise in a podcast about manifestos through history, from the Founders to the Unabomber to tech bros and AIDS activists. It was one of many eye-opening, sobering, and outright hilarious moments in the six episodes. (And, full disclosure, I learned about the podcast itself from my son, who co
Gloria Steinem was a beacon for women like me (opens the original)
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Once upon a time in the mists of history, I was a college-age feminist working on an alternative newspaper called her-self in Ann Arbor, and involved in the University of Michigan chapter of Women in Communications. With the ambition of youth, a co-op housemate and I somehow managed to organize a regional conference and invited important women journalists from all over, including then two-year-old Ms. Magazine. Sadly, we were unable to snag Gloria Steinem for that March 1974 conference. But we d
Why Hong lost and Flanagan won (opens the original)
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