Our culture has a fetish for putting old wine in new bottles. We reboot old TV and movie franchises, comic books, games, everything. We crave both novelty and familiarity, and like to get both at the same time if we can. Yiannopoulos is that in spades. He’s the racist, homophobic, sexist uncle you dread talking to at Thanksgiving, but he wears eyeliner and pearls.
All That Man Is by David Szalay My rating: 2 of 5 stars I kept waiting for the irony to kick in. As I read
Hey, you. White dude with the red cap. You with the gun rack in your pickup’s rear window. You who live in a white rural town where
Professor Dawkins, It pains me a little writing this. As a fellow atheist, I respect the work you’ve done promulgating atheist thought through your books
Let’s start with V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate of 2001: I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it
Reading Rebecca Watson’s Slate article on sexism and sexual harassment in the skeptical community depressed me this morning. (And with a cold coming on and