ILF POST

By Gloria Feldt Sex educators (before the ‘abstinence only’ people made them stop talking about sex at all, which is a whole other story), use a technique called “desensitization” to help people get to where they can talk sensibly about previously verboten facts such as the proper names for body parts. Secrecy creates mystery and [...]

By Charles Lindblom In a book manuscript on its way to publication, I have just read a message addressed to liberals and radicals urging that they abandon the word “liberal” and instead use “progressive”. Many have of course already done so in recent years.
It may be a good idea. But —

By Douglass Carmichael I’ve been pushed by colleagues looking at science as a culture to clarify my own beliefs about what science at its best is. Their premise has been that science needs a new openness if we are to benefit as fully as we might from it, so here are my [...]