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Blowback
My new book—Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, published by Norton on March 9th—has produced some highly predictable, in fact predicted, reactions. I’d written on p. 17,...
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Blowback 2
I said in my last posting that I expected Women After All to offend four groups. The biggest and most vulgar response has been from the “men’s rights” movement—really Quavering Male Chauvinists (QMCs)...
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Women’s Suffrage is 95 Years Old!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her proper place It’s a great day to celebrate women’s movements past and present, but does feminism require the belief that women are basically like men? This was at least...
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“Mom and Mommy, Where Do Babies Come From?”
The 1989 book, Heather Has Two Mommies, normalized for my kids the idea that two women could care for a child and create a fine family. The controversy it met with seemed increasingly quaint as...
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The Case that Clinched the Zika-Brain Connection
Normal fetus Rita Levi-Montalcini, the first Nobel laureate to reach 100, graduated from the Turin medical school in 1936, and soon started working on the developing nervous system. Two years later,...
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Blowback
My new book—Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, published by Norton on March 9th—has produced some highly predictable, in fact predicted, reactions. I’d written on p. 17,...
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Blowback 2
I said in my last posting that I expected Women After All to offend four groups. The biggest and most vulgar response has been from the “men’s rights” movement—really Quavering Male Chauvinists (QMCs)...
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Women’s Suffrage is 95 Years Old!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her proper place It’s a great day to celebrate women’s movements past and present, but does feminism require the belief that women are basically like men? This was at least...
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“Mom and Mommy, Where Do Babies Come From?”
The 1989 book, Heather Has Two Mommies, normalized for my kids the idea that two women could care for a child and create a fine family. The controversy it met with seemed increasingly quaint as...
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The Case that Clinched the Zika-Brain Connection
Normal fetus Rita Levi-Montalcini, the first Nobel laureate to reach 100, graduated from the Turin medical school in 1936, and soon started working on the developing nervous system. Two years later,...
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Charles Darwin’s Happy Birthday
As we mark Charles Darwin’s birthday on February 12th, our culture is riding a wave that should take us back to his theory. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements are the crest of the wave, which may...
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The Day After
Note: This appeared as one of my contributions last week to a private email group including a number of lawyers. Three of them, including a retired Democratic Congressional Representative, endorsed my...
View ArticleUnsettled in a new, revised, second edition for Kindle
Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews is now available on Amazon.com in a revised 2018 edition for Kindle, $6.99, here.
View ArticleOpening to What?
“I think right now, because there’s been good news really, that the opening up is starting to happen faster than we expected, appears to be doing so safely, then there is a chance that we...
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Les Jeux Son Faits: COVID-19 Update to Students
“If some areas, cities, states, or what have you…prematurely open up…my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, answering Sen. Patty...
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Opening Gambits: Freedom Goes Viral
“With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing—but health, without...
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100,000
Dear students, Before I share a few post-Memorial Day thoughts about the virus and this tragic and needless milestone, I would like to mention two people who have died recently but not from the corona...
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“I, Corona”: My Exclusive Interview with the Little Guy Who’s Changing the World
Dear Students, I have a special treat for you today, an exclusive interview with SARS-CoV-2, his first ever, on his life and times so far. I was able to arrange this through my special friend Charles...
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Between the Lightning and the Thunder
Dear Students, As you know, when you see the sky light up because of a bolt of lightning, it takes a few seconds before you hear the thunder, because of the difference between the speed of light and...
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One Marshmallow
“These plans are so unrealistically optimistic that they border on delusional and could lead to outbreaks of Covid-19 among students, faculty and staff.” Laurence Steinberg, The New York...
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