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Most French women are skinny. Yet even Paris is telling skinny models to fatten up. That’s saying a lot. Paris bans skinny models The fashion industry has been idolizing skinny women since the days of Twiggy. And that was the 1960s. I’ve been decrying that idolatry since I launched this blog in 2005. Except that… Read more.
I’ve been railing for years against trend-setting, skeletal models strutting their dry bones on runways across the fashion world. This is why I was so heartened earlier this month when France enacted legislation to ban them from runways in Paris. Here is a little of my abiding lament: By today’s standards, former supermodels like Cindy… Read more.
MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky is arguably the most accomplished thinker in America, if not the world, today. Whatever one thinks of Wikipedia, it fairly describes Chomsky as an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate. That established, Chomsky shared “his views on the current media landscape” in… Read more.
