Jonathan Spector’s dark comedy about vaccination is timely and sharply double-edged. At first, it pokes at wokeness; the characters lead an ultraprogressive private school in California. But when an outbreak of mumps threatens the student body,the school's ideal of personal discussion and consen...
He used his numerous articles, essays, and books to compare the legal status of women at the time to the legal status of slaves, to promote radical empiricism as a function of mathematics, and to pioneer the harm principle—the idea that political power should only be wielded over a member...
Idaho was receptive to progressive policies like Women's Suffrage, Eugenics (the sterilization of certain individuals for the benefit of the community), and prohibition. Rant to the Battles Photo by Vita Leonis on Unsplash Rant to the Battles The trapper rendezvous in 1832 ended with a battle b...
As an artist’s daughter you do tend to see things a little differently, as evident last Saturday morning as I stared out the window of a bus heading to the Hunter Valley on a girls’ day out. Most of the women were chatting about their children and their jobs, but characteristically I...
Armoires and built-ins the size of bison, mullioned glass, breathtaking woodwork—it was all there, under cobwebs in the Italianate townhouse of the New Century Guild, an organization for the freethinking women of suffrage-era Philadelphia. Absorbed by this history, real-estate developer and ...