June 12, 2023 02:34 pm | Updated 02:41 pm IST “Humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being,” remarks Simone de Beauvoir in her seminal text The Second Sex. Women as a class have been regarded as inessential throughout history — an anomaly to the …
American citizens don’t really have to imagine what it’s like to live with a malignant narcissist. And yet the razor’s-edge satire “Sick of Myself” from Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli posits a version of it for an insecure young Oslo woman that’s so outlandishly perverse, yet steeped in recognizable modern neuroses, that it might just have you tracking your own self-pity …
The California recall had an important lesson for Democrats, on at least two levels: First, that protecting public health is a politically potent platform, as California Gov. In tune with this long-term potential, as reported by NPR the previous week, more than 200 medical journals issued an unprecedented joint statement warning that the rapidly warming climate is the "greatest threat" …
