“Feminism is the new natalism,” David Willetts, a British member of Parliament, declared in a 2004 manifesto. In contrast to those strains of feminism that argue marriage, pregnancy, and motherhood are systems of oppression, the pro-human feminists grabbed on to this idea of “fecund feminism.” For nearly 20 years, many op-eds have echoed Willetts’s arguments.
HBO’s new docuseries Telemarketers is a riveting, charmingly gonzo investigation of the industry by former telemarketers who first began documenting their job with camcorders two decades ago at a New Jersey phone bank later shut down by the Federal Trade Commission. Directed by Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern and produced by Josh and Benny Safdie and Danny McBride, among others, the documentary is a scruffy sensation recalling the best early work of Michael Moore.
It is bad enough that California’s Proposition 47 already functionally legalized shoplifting in the Golden State by reducing the penalty for stealing less than $950 worth of merchandise to a misdemeanor.
A president concerned about economic well-being in the nation he leads would look for ways to reduce the price of gasoline as both Saudi Arabia and Russia announced extended cuts to oil production this week.
Lawmakers within the Senate Energy Committee heard from experts and officials about the DOE's work with AI and where the technology penetrates other facets of everyday life.
The Guttmacher Institute has reported an increase in abortions in the first six months of 2023, but the methodology of their estimates is questionable.
Former President Donald Trump hosted a $100,000-a-plate fundraiser for disgraced former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club Thursday night as Giuliani struggles to pay his mounting legal bills.
A Democratic official who called for dismantling the police at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests was singing a different tune after being carjacked and viciously beaten in her driveway in front of her children.
A few years ago, I was in Paris and bought three books in French. Given my mediocre ability to read that language, it was overly ambitious. One of the books has remained unopened since, a second one started but unfinished. I had finished reading the third book, however, by the time I left Paris. It was well worth the struggle through the language of Voltaire, and it remains one of the best books I’ve ever read. Thankfully, that book, The Syriac World by Francoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debie, originally published in French in 2017, is now available in English translation.