What could I possibly get out of this exercise in prurient professional curiosity?
The most well-known image of the quietist in the Republic is that of the philosopher in the bad city
we have to be careful while doing so not to abjure the very sense of agency that we would need to sustain such a revolt
it’s nevertheless hard to shake the suspicion that, for many of the people inveighing against the morality of child-rearing, the prospect of a life without children appears to be less a sacrifice than a relief
Obviously this campaign had been planned well in advance. The perpetrators were only waiting for a propitious time to carry it out
