New from me at @Quillette: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, defeating cancel culture for almost 250 years
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(And the new London production, whose filmed version may now be onscreen near you!)
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Brexit was supposed to free Britain from European political dysfunction. Instead, a decade on, Britain has become the most European it has ever been.
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Assimilation: Islam vs Judaism A clip from my recent convo with @BenedictBeckeld
00:00 - Nearly 250 years old, banned by multiple governments, denounced as "perverse and poisonous" — and Les Liaisons Dangereuses has survived all of it. Now #MeToo wants a turn. @CathyYoung63 on why the novel keeps winning.
- Reform is now the most popular party in Britain. Labour has fallen to third place. For the first time in modern history, neither of the two traditional parties leads the polls.
Unlike most of Europe, of course, Britain lacks proportional representation, and our First Past the Post system makes it extremely difficult for most parties to break through and actually win seats. But that system has never looked more capable of accommodating ideological - Quillette reposted
The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child: What Ancient Cultures Did Before Abortion (I discuss the decline of infanticide in The Better Angels of Our Nature. For most of human existence, probably 10-15% of newborns were killed.) - Quillette reposted"If preventing abortions compels such an urgent moral priority for anti-abortion campaigners, why don’t they mobilise their formidable energies to raise funds for family planning and contraception services?"
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Keir Starmer is just the latest victim of a political reality created by Brexit—one that has, counterintuitively, turned Britain into a European country. Luke Hallam for @Quillette - Quillette reposted
Roger Corman would have turned 100 this year. As a producer, he gave Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, & James Cameron their big breaks in the film industry. Read more about the King of B Movies in my article for @Quillette. - "The Bajau show evidence of selection for both larger spleens, capable of storing more oxygenated red blood, and genes coding for the human diving reflex." Tristan S. Rapp on the biological adaptations of the Bajau sea-nomads to a lifetime spent underwater.
- Here is the question. Did Michael Jackson sexually abuse children? Not: was he acquitted? Not: was he a genius? Not: do we separate the art from the artist? The question is simpler and uglier than any of those. Did he do it?If you follow the evidence, there's only one answer. Based on @AndrewHammel1's hit essay for Quillette.
- Humans have shaped their own evolution through chosen environments and lifestyles, from Bajau divers to lactose tolerance in Europe. @Hieraaetus
