Tag: abortion rights
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Anyone for Lysistrata? Or, Towards a sex-strike for abortion rights, via Aristophanes’ Comedy
Proposing a sex strike for women’s rights, esp. reproductive care, following Aristophanes’ model, Lysistrata
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Demonizing Oligarchs Won’t Win Elections
Let’s be clear: the times when progressive actions could circumvent the legislature have now ended. In the face of persistent obstructionism by republicans elected to Congress, Obama turned to executive actions and he did what he could with what he had. (For the record, it has not escaped my memory that Donny with the Combover…
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Alito’s “Ordered Liberty,” or, the masks donned by fascists
Historical inquiry is no different from scientific inquiry. I’m an ancient historian saying this, and one particularly fond of the man who first applied the emergent principles of scientific inquiry (those still used to this day in so-called ‘Western’ science) to the study of our species and specifically to a scientific inquiry into the causes…
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 