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The Myth of the Independent Girlboss

Inez Stepman

Is the independent girlboss dead? Maybe she never existed to begin with. The release of Lindy Westโ€™s latest cringeworthy memoir, Adult Bracesโ€”about how her husband out-woked her into becoming...

Ambitious Nihilism

Inez Stepman

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by malcolm harris little, brown and company, 720 pages, $36 The Palo Alto suicides started in 2002, when Malcolm...

A Parallel Polis

Inez Stepman

Bear the standard for religious orthodoxy with First Things. Make your contribution to our 2023 spring campaign today at firstthings.com/donate. One of the tragedies of our current existence on the vertical end...