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In the year 250 an edict was issued that everyone throughout the Empire was required to sacrifice to the Roman gods and the well-being of the Emperor Decius. These sacrifices were to be witnessed and certified by a Roman magistrate. This was state-enforced conformity. Read more -
"And do you have family?" he asked. I was slightly thrown, as we'd just been talking about my brother and his wife and kids in California, and my parents in Northampton. Had it not been clear that they were my family? Then I realised what he meant: are you married? Read more -
Naomi Wolf ends her classic denunciation of porn with an encounter with, “A boy with tousled hair and Bambi eyes” at Northwestern University. Read more - Page ‹ First < 172 173 174 175 176 > Last ›