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Milton Diamond, Sexologist and Advocate for Intersex Babies, Dies at 90
He pushed back against doctors who recommended surgery on infants born with ambiguous genitalia, arguing for acceptance of diversity.
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Neil Gaiman Has a Hero Out of Step in a Book Out of Time
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a…
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Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the…
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Uncovering What Audubon Missed, and What He Made Up
In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
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The Teenage Witches Are Growing Up
New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.
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Neil Portnow Accuser Asks Court to Dismiss Her Sexual Assault Lawsuit
The woman, who sued the former head of the Grammy Awards anonymously, expressed concern that her identity would be revealed…
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Ian Gelder, ‘Game of Thrones’ Actor, Dies at 74
He played Kevan Lannister, the brother of feared patriarch Tywin, and was diagnosed with bile duct cancer five months ago.
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Three Reasons the Campus Protests Are Part of the Problem
Readers have been asking me, and I have been asking myself of late, how I feel about the campus demonstrations…
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He Knows It’s Important to Admit Mistakes. He’s Made Many.
Glenn Loury thought maybe the world — maybe he — had been wrong about Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted…
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Why Conservative and Liberal Catholics Can’t Escape One Another
Before Pope Francis was elected, conservative Catholics had fallen into a habit of dismissing the more liberal form of Catholicism…