Aging Sperm? Not the End of the World

Judith Shulevitz’s recent New Republic essay on how later parenthood is “upending American society” claims that delaying kids could lead us down a rabbit hole of genetic decline. But the evidence is inconclusive and somewhat anecdotal.

Slut Limbaugh and the Virgin Queen

Birth control has unraveled the social fabric that bound all but the very exceptional women with shackles of shame, violence and penury.   There’s a way to go before we weave a pattern of full fairness, but there’s no going back.  Good riddance.  The queen is dead.  Long live the enfranchised citizen.