First, the right response to any alleged failure on Ms. Erdely's part would not be to publish an article asking rhetorically "Is the UVA story a big hoax?" but "Did This Reporter Err in How She Reported an Important Story?" There is no logical connection between any supposed failure by Ms. Erdely and Jackie being a…

I don't know, if I were the EIC of Worth I might prefer to be known as mostly retired.

Some people dispute the veracity of the moon landing. But writing about moon landing skeptics isn't moon landing journalism. Talking to people associated with the moon landing and finding out whether it happened, or talking to actual experts in the field with pertinent opinions might be journalism. Talking to two…

That's not at all the same. "Don't torture people because it is both evil and bad for your mental health" is good advice and virtually universally accepted as good psychiatric practice. There is no major psychiatric organization that I know of that endorses torture as either a moral thing to do or a psychologically…

The Karma Police have already been alerted and are likely on their way.

I feel like Cate Blanchett could play literally anyone she put her mind to playing, but she seems like a natural Joni.

I was actually enjoying the Socrates reference. Didn't it take 2000 years or more for the unexpurgated version of the Symposium to get published?

I would be surprised if most straight, feminist women don't have their own list of lust objects among male celebrities. I think the struggle against sexual objectification is much more about being relegated to only a sex object, not elimination of any discussion of sexual desire. If Anna Kendrick fits on her husband's…

and five years later, she filmed "Winter's Bone."

*hangs head in shame*

Do we really need another Janis Joplin biopic after "Judy Jormp-Jomp"?

Anna Wintour has been pointedly called the devil in both major publications and a widely released feature film. I somehow doubt calling Kim Kardashian "tasteless" makes the top 1000 list of her great sins.

The thing that comes through loudest here is the complete lack of understanding of sex and consent among the teens at Norman High. That is too often the subtext to a lot of these terrible rape stories. We have a general population with a very shaky notion of what real consent is. It makes you wonder where that…

The real problem is the men putting their hands in their damn pockets while wearing suits. Come the fuck on.

I think the teacher should have cleared the presentation with the administration ahead of time, but I'm not sure on a moral or ethical basis how this is worse than the school cafeteria presenting hamburger or chicken patties, divorced from the reality of animal death.

Is that good for plus sized customers? If ON can only sell plus-sized clothing at a diminished profit, won't a possible outcome be Old Navy just not selling plus-sized clothing at all, or selling it in reduced variety or quality?

Could there be a stock issue here? The fact that women's shirts vary from $2.99 to $7.00 (a 239% markup) depending on whether you want a red shirt or a forest green shirt probably isn't indicative of deep-seated prejudice against women who wear green. Could the discrepancy between plus-sized clothing prices and…

Did they not talk to you about patient privacy in EMT school? While you didn't use the patient's name, how many MIT students have died from alcohol poisoning in a basement? That's basically identifying information.

I like our local zoo because most of the wildlife exhibited is local or from a comparable climate (so no zebras are trying to cope with below freezing temperatures), and most of the animals are either orphaned or injured animals who otherwise would not survive in the wild. It actually plays an important role as a…

If you actually believe grown men (and presumably women) are clusters of molecules without agency, then why do you care if people make Bill Cosby feel bad? I think that's a fairly extreme and absurd position to take, but it would make pretty much every aspect of human existence seem weird. Why are you focusing on this…