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Author Archives: Fenster
Sucker Punched
Fenster writes: I wrote here about the many relatively reputable news outlets that got suckered by a bogus story about a public masturbation booth in midtown Manhattan. It seems like some stories are just too juicy to pass up. Why … Continue reading
Posted in Sex, Technology, The Good Life
Tagged Bradley Charvet, Cafe Pipe, Fellatio Cafe
4 Comments
Lessons from Across the Pond?
Fenster writes: Are there lessons to be learned from the messages from across the pond?
Realism, Race and Class Versions
Fenster writes: Elements of the alt-right consider themselves to be ‘race realists’. Generally, this view relies on genetics as a partial way to explain human differences, and on the fact that natural selection can operate at a fast enough rate … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Economics
Tagged farewell to alms, Gest, Jonathan Capehart, race realism
2 Comments
Trillin X 2
Fenster writes: Two takes on Calvin Trillin. Food and killing.
Posted in Politics and Economics, Uncategorized
Tagged Alice Lets Eat, American Fried, Calvin Trilln, Killings
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Sokal Redux?
Fenster writes: When making sense no longer makes sense it is very tempting to stop making sense, this urge itself a form of sense-making. In 1984 the interrogator tells Winston Smith that two and two can equal five if the … Continue reading
Left, Right, Left, Right, Left
Fenster writes: Ah, the times in which we live. Here is Michael Lind, once conservative, then a critic of conservatism, now writing an article not for Salon but for the Trumpist journal American Affairs. Is this a conservative piece? … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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What is the “Right” Take on Higher Education?
Fenster writes: My wife makes fun of me because when I give directions I tend to mix up left and right. I don’t know why I do this. I am a fairly hard “P” (perceiver) in Meyers-Briggs terms so it … Continue reading
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The Mistaken