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// A glowing piece in the Guardian reports recently that Iceland (“the world’s most feminist country”) has banned strip clubs. The move is just the most recent in a line of measures taken to snuff out the sex trade. According to the author: Even more impressive: the Nordic state is the first country in the [...]
// It never ceases to amaze me how many on the conservative side of the political, and especially cultural, spectrum gleefully embrace the thing that their intellectual forefathers fought against. Meanwhile they use the very same language and reasoning to fight against new sociopolitical developments that are, essentially, logical extensions of the very thing they [...]
// I recently visited a WordPress blog (which will remain unnamed to protect the innocent) in which a western woman wrote that in her travels in some regions of India, she had a tough time finding the women. She found few walking around in public, dining in restaurants or visiting the beach. Whenever she did [...]
// The recent news of financial crisis in the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world offers everybody the opportunity to take a closer look at that shining city in the Gulf. Dubai—that outwardly gorgeous, irresistibly tax-free haven of opportunity and prosperity—is, and has been for a long time, a profound sham. Perhaps nowhere [...]
