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"There is a persistent myth that a wife has control over her husband’s money because she gets to spend it. Actually, s…"

"Dylan is free now to work on his own terms. It would be foolish to predict what he will do next. But hopefully he wil…"

"Despite its numerical insignificance, the anti-abortion left epitomizes the hypocrisy of the right-to-life crusade. I…"

"Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their ob…"

"The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merel…"

"By definition, the conventional wisdom of the day is widely accepted, continually reiterated and regarded not as ideo…"

"The idea that lack of paternal guidance can explain today's masculinity crisis doesn't make sense. I suspect rather t…"

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"The name Ellen Willis is synonymous with political intelligence. Her cultural criticism is lucid, unerring, and impor…"