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Monday 05 May 2008 / Wendy McElroy  |
| Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love |
| Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love (2015) by sociologist Thea Cacchioni is a timely and acut[...] |
| on 21 Feb 2016 by Wendy McElroy |
| Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love by Thea Cacchioni (University of Toronto Press, 2015), 167 pages. Reviewed by Wendy McElroy Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love (2015) by sociologist Thea Cacchioni is a timely and acutely disappointing book that makes some excellent side points. The book begins with an important question: is human sexuality being reduced to a [read more] |
| A Necessary Distortion |
| Book review of A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government by Pulitzer Prize winn[...] |
| on 15 Nov 2014 by Wendy McElroy |
| A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government by Pulitzer Prize winning Garry Wills is a book with a mission. Wills contends that a charming Yankee trait--an ornery suspicion of all things political--is based upon an intricate misunderstanding. He claims that historians have mistakenly concluded that the Founding Fathers and framers of the Constitution believed government was "a [read more] |
| New Threats to Freedom |
| From Banning Ice Cream Trucks in Brooklyn to Abandoning Democracy Around the World |
| on 24 Jul 2013 by Wendy McElroy |
| New Threats to Freedom: From Banning Ice Cream Trucks in Brooklyn to Abandoning Democracy Around the World JANUARY 04, 2012 by WENDY MCELROY [Note: First published at the Foundation for Economic Education.] New Threats to Freedom, edited and introduced by HarperCollins’s executive editor Adam Bellow, is an ambitious anthology. Its premise: The twentieth century faced unique threats to freedom, such as communism and [read more] |
| J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists |
| J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domest[...] |
| on 27 Mar 2013 by Wendy McElroy |
| J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 by Douglas M. Charles (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007). Reviewed by Wendy McElroy The Domestic Surveillance State is sometimes called the Electronic Police State. Those in political power use law enforcement to closely monitor the opinions and peaceful behavior of citizens in order to [read more] |
| Book review: The End of Gay |
| The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality) |
| on 07 Mar 2013 by Wendy McElroy |
| The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality) By Bert Archer Toronto, Canada: Random House, 1999 $29.95 CAN Reviewed by Wendy McElroy As a personal commentary on one man’s evolution from ‘gay’ to ‘sexual without labels,’ the sharp edged “The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality)” by Bert Archer is both intriguing and [read more] |
| J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists |
| FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 |
| on 30 Jan 2013 by Wendy McElroy |
| J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 by Douglas M. Charles (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007). Reviewed by Wendy McElroy The Domestic Surveillance State is sometimes called the Electronic Police State. Those in political power use law enforcement to closely monitor the opinions and peaceful behavior of citizens in order [read more] |
| Three Felonies a Day |
| Ccivil-liberties attorney Harvey A. Silverglate estimates that the average person unknowingly breaks[...] |
| on 25 Mar 2012 by Wendy McElroy |
| If you are an average American, then you are a repeat felon. In his stunning book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (2009), civil-liberties attorney Harvey A. Silverglate estimates that the average person unknowingly breaks at least three criminal laws each and every day. Federal statutes and regulations have become so voluminous and vague that [read more] |
| Big Pharma and the Medicalization of Routine Problems |
| Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction |
| on 25 Mar 2012 by Wendy McElroy |
| Big Pharma and the Medicalization of Routine Problems “Fifty years ago, it made sense to assert that mental illnesses are not diseases, but it makes no sense to say so today. Debate about what counts as mental illness has been replaced by legislation about the medicalization and demedicalization of behavior. Old diseases such as homosexuality and hysteria disappear. New diseases such [read more] |
| Alongside Night |
| J. Neil Schulman's 1979 novel, Alongside Night, depicts the sort of Dystopian future that leave[...] |
| on 25 Mar 2012 by Wendy McElroy |
| Alongside Night Reviewed by Wendy McElroy J. Neil Schulman's 1979 novel, Alongside Night, depicts the sort of Dystopian future that leaves you shifting a bit nervously in your chair while reading. Dystopian is the opposite of utopian. It refers to an imaginary place or time in which the conditions of life are terrible, usually as the result of government oppression, nuclear war, [read more] |
| Alongside Night |
| J. Neil Schulman's 1979 novel, Alongside Night, depicts the sort of Dystopian future that leave[...] |
| on 25 Mar 2012 by Wendy McElroy |
| Alongside Night Reviewed by Wendy McElroy J. Neil Schulman's 1979 novel, Alongside Night, depicts the sort of Dystopian future that leaves you shifting a bit nervously in your chair while reading. Dystopian is the opposite of utopian. It refers to an imaginary place or time in which the conditions of life are terrible, usually as the result of government oppression, nuclear war, [read more] |
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