February 13, 2025 – William M. Briggs

“Feminism Is A Disease Of The Rich”

The title quote is from David Stove, coming in a 1985 essay entitled "Jobs for Girls". That date is as good as any to celebrate as the birth of Woke,…

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Vox clamantis in deserto
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The universities have serious problems and the criticism of them is justly warranted. But from these excerpts this compact is…
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To follow up, on screaming -- in 1986 I fell off a turnip wagon, blond and blue, in New York…
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Briggs, you are the master of hard-boiled, surreal, precise, colorful, expansive poetry masquerading as cultural commentary. You are our age's…
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Nate, Now how in the world did that happen. I fixed it and it didn't take. Fixed again, and this…