Caitlin Flanagan

2 days ago | apu.fi | Caitlin Flanagan

The Atlanticin alkuperäisen, englanninkielisen jutun voit lukea tästä linkistä. On olemassa sanonta – tai ehkä itsestäänselvyys – että minkä tahansa uuden teknologian arvo piilee sen kyvyssä tuottaa pornografiaa. Kauan sitten oli aika kun pornoa löytyi vain yksityiskokoelmista: karkeita patsaita ja piirroksia, joiden vaikutus ulottui vain niin pitkälle kuin ne voitiin fyysisesti kantaa. Mutta näin alkeellinen elämä ei kelvannut ihmiselle.

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Caitlin Flanagan

Just when you think you’ll never laugh again, Columbia University students pick up a new cause: free speech. Who among us wants to step on the punch line by asking questions? For example, do these newfound champions of the First Amendment really mean it, and will their next move be to champion a Zionist whose speech has been policed (probably by them) and demand that his right to free expression be upheld? Magic 8 Ball says: Don’t count on it.

1 month ago | afr.com | Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin FlanaganMar 27, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? There’s a saying – or maybe a truism – that the test of any new technology lies in its ability to reproduce pornography. Long ago, pornography was the stuff of private collections: crude figurines and drawings that spread their influence only as far as they could be carried.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Caitlin Flanagan

There’s a saying—or maybe a truism—that the test of any new technology lies in its ability to reproduce pornography. Long ago, pornography was the stuff of private collections: crude figurines and drawings that spread their influence only as far as they could be carried. But man could not live in this wilderness forever. He had opposable thumbs and pressing needs, and thus were born woodblock printing, engraving, movable type, daguerreotype, halftone printing, photography, the moving image.

Jan 24, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Caitlin Flanagan

It is not unusual for clerics to address their leaders directly. King James regularly caught hell from the pulpit. So when Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde went for the king, at the end of an interminable sermon on Tuesday morning in the National Cathedral, she was acting within an established tradition. She was also operating within another well-known tradition, the “Where did everybody go?” confusion within her church regarding its sharply declining membership.