"...energy isn’t just a nice idea; it’s fucking mandatory.” Of course, the German soldiers were young men, too. And it isn’t clear which border Galloway thinks the Russians were crossing, or if he realizes which side they were fighting for."

"...in a Paul Verhoeven film, Galloway appeals to the reader’s nostalgia for mid-century “Peak Male.” It was young men, he reminds us, who stormed the beaches at Normandy and who won the Battle of the Bulge: “When Germans or Russians are streaming over the border or firing from the beach, big-dick..

Possibly the best part:

"Reading Galloway, one gets the sense that men last knew who they were about seventy-five years ago. Much as the Trump Administration does when it vows to revive the coal industry, or when it shares fascist-lite iconography that would be at home...

"...mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research... suggested that married men’s disinclination toward housework and other “draggy business of family life” may be holding back birth rates...

James Watson's legacy is really very simple. This is not a case of a John Lennon type complicated legacy, where you say "great musician, but a shitty person". No, Watson was just a shitty person who was in the right place at the right time. I can't think of anything celebratory about that

Thanks for the heads-up.

It's getting harder to think of things that antisemites allege Jews do that aren't also things that Elon Musk and his tech bro friends actually do.