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In a melancholy meditation on the deeply flawed character of Cesar Chavez, Richard Rodriguez offers this: The speech Chavez had written during his hunger strike of 1968, wherein he compared the UFW to David fighting Goliath, announced the Mexican ­theme: “I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is…

When I posted a few weeks ago this link to a Newsweek piece in praise of Rielle Hunter’s silence, I speculated timidly but hopefully (along with the author) that her silence in the sordid John Edwards matter perhaps indicated that she had matured. Well — surprise, surprise! — I was wrong. The predatory, gold-digging stalker…

On The Atlantic’s site, Wendy Kaminer writes: An openly gay student seeking a graduate degree in counseling at a state university is expelled for refusing to agree that homosexuality is immoral and declining to enter an anti-gay indoctrination program. An openly gay high school guidance counselor speaks out in favor of same sex marriage and…

Attention Julie Dreher! Attention Leonore Owsley! Attention Jacqueline Hill! Attention all hen-keeping women of the blogosphere! Did you know that keeping chickens is a feminist act? The New York Times Magazine says so. Excerpt: All of these gals — these chicks with chicks — are stay-at-home moms, highly educated women who left the work force…
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