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Link: We Look Up To Households That Make Consensual Decisions And We’re Not Sorry | Bleeding Heart Libertarians
Considering the value of domestic work from a feminist/libertarian perspective. It’s a good read. One thing is certain, and it’s a thing that Glass, and many others, elide. The laundry has to get done. You can talk theory all you like. You can praise traditional women’s work or you can denigrate it. You can reclaim…
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The Backstory: “God hates divorce” and therefore my dad?
My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the category “Biography,” if you’re interested. ~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry about leaving y’all hanging after that last post. I had to write a paper. Mission accomplished, so back to our regularly scheduled biography…. So. Apparently my mom is the only person I…
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Hold up — BRB
I realize I’ve done the cruelest thing a writer can do — leave her readers hanging for too long. I’ll get back to that unfinished story about my parents, I promise. Right now, though, I have *got* to finish this paper (contrasting the views of Karl Barth and Abraham Kuyper on the purpose of the…
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The Internet is changing how we think and write
Two relatively short pieces that are worth your attention. The Internet is changing how we think, interact, read, write, and learn. It’s not a bad thing; it’s probably mostly just a thing. The first is an interesting interview with an author who can both tear the Internet a new one for being stupid and annoying at…
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Link: ‘Life Keeps Changing’: Why Stories, Not Science, Explain the World – Atlantic Mobile
Short, thoughtful interview with an author who left science to pursue Story. ‘Life Keeps Changing’: Why Stories, Not Science, Explain the World – Atlantic Mobile.’ The natural world is a source of wonder and even horror for Jennifer Percy, author of Demon Camp, but science can only explain so much. After Percy read Lawrence Sargent…
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