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In an Op-Ed in this morning’s New York Daily News, Justice Denied author Marci Hamilton decries another situation in which sexual abusers are shielded from public scrutiny. It’s a familiar...
Busted: Catherine de’Medici’s Italian Chefs Taught the French How to Cook According to legend, the turning point in the development of French gastronomy was 1533, when Catherine de’ Medici, daughter...
First off, newly syndicated readers who want to have access to my previous posts can find them archived here as well as listed on my own site here. After last week’s speculations on time I would...
A Revolution in Taste was profiled in The New Yorker just the other day! Pinkard reveals that before the storming of the Bastille a revolution took place at dinner tables all over France, when ornate,...
With the Martin Gardner books available, I’ve been throwing the word hexaflexagon around a lot. It’s part of the title, after all. For anyone who hasn’t ever seen one, they’re cool....
Is the concept of patriarchy still a useful one? Or has it lost its meaning through years of feminist criticism and criticism of feminism? In the latest issue of Bookforum, Feministing blogger and American...
If you're like me, you love beets. They're all over restaurant menus lately, which is great. Though delicious and simply done, I find ordering them underwhelming. After all -- they're really easy to make at home, and they keep for ages. I've gotten my wife eating them, and probably do so 2 or 3 times a week. Here, Susan Pinkard, trolling through historical French recipes, has excavated a recipe for a Good Friday dish (totally vegetarian). It's unlike my usual beet routine, so I'm going to give it a whirl. How could one go wrong with 2 sticks of butter?
Future Imperfect author David Friedman recently spoke at the Cato Institute in DC. Slate’s William Saletan attended, and he seemed to have enjoyed himself. Anyone who’s watched Friedman lecture...
Yikes. First off, congratulations America! Electing the first black US president has to be significant and already puts Obama into the history books, whatever economic and other problems may loom worryingly...
Obama may think it safer to keep his sanity intact. But unless he presses on some hotly debated topics, we’ll be left with a world at risk. Barack Obama will want to show that a black President can fill...
Considering Bush’s decision-making style, and what many perceived as a reckless, ham-fisted approach to policy, it’s no wonder that the press is scrutinizing Obama’s style very closely. ...
Proposition 8 still hangs in the balance. Perhaps a more intriguing question: what happens if it passes? Or if it fails? I don’t expect this to end any time soon, and this shows the real allure that...
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