Let’s be real. The only reason he supported Roe vs. Wade is because he didn’t want a ton of little Hefners running around that he’d have to provide for or pay child support on. He definitely had ulterior motives on that one.

Well, a stopped clock is right twice a day.

For one, he provided a huge amount of financing for Roe v. Wade. He was an abortion rights advocate who put his own money where his mouth was without question.

He may not have called them bitches, but he sure as hell didn’t respect them. I will never understand the Hefner apologists - it is no coincidence that Cosby and Hefner were best buddies and at least one of the Cosby rapes happened at the Playboy Mansion.

If literally any other man did this, would we applaud him for being an ‘icon’?

I will never understand this dude’s popularity with women. The man basically kept a creepy babe-zoo in his house and only supported ‘women’s empowerment’ as long as it fit his idea of women being naked and not being ~prudes~ about it. If literally any other man did this, would we applaud him for being an ‘icon’?

Whatever else may be said about Hefner, his contribution to American journalism through the mid 1980s remains impressive.

See also also: Facebook.

Political correctness is a good critical term for a set of superficial, dogmatic social norms, and it is a growing problem in academia. But, as your “see also” suggests, that problem is not one inherent to any ideology, least of all liberalism—and there is no more fragile a snowflake than one that feels attacked by…

At the time I read Bobos in Paradise, the trends Brooks was talking about were coming to life up and down the East and West Coasts. Now, the book is so out of date it’s scary.

Interestingly, David Brooks on the radio or TV can come across as fairly even-handed and agreeable. Then you read his writing and it’s like “fuck this guy.”

I’m also transfixed by this GIF.

Saddam had lots of plans. Few of them succeeded. Believing this guy’s plan had any merit or credible threat is the height of folly. I’d rather think our leaders were corrupt rather than morons. Either way the war wasted lives for no good reason other than penis envy and money.

I always say that 9/11 brought out the best in America for one day, and the worst of it for all the time after that.

He also wrote a very funny book almost 20 years ago called Bobos in Paradise. It’s basically a rehash of Paul Fussell’s Class and Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class and probably doesn’t hold up as well today, since it has all kinds of circa-1999 references.

unnecessary war in Iraq

This needs more context so you can see how ridiculous it really was. (I’m a student at Georgetown Law. Yes, Tiffany is in my class, but not my section.)

I think you are going to be awfully surprised in the next 12-18 months.

I’d add an asterisk to your usage of “white” to state non-Hispanic white, and “Christian” to state Protestant Christian. Because non-Hispanic white Protestants in the US have a long history of being very concerned about who is allowed to have the same rights as them. Before the US was even a country they fought…

They’re just acting like sportsball fans, eternally doubling down and refusing to abandon Their Team, because to do otherwise would be admitting that they made a mistake in judgment. Now they’re double proud to stick up for the loser that everyone else hates. Nevermind that life is not a sportsball contest, and…