All Stories published by The Awl on June 08, 2011

Suicide and the ‘Slippery Slope’ Argument

Are we still arguing about “assisted suicide”? Times web thinkie-typer Ross Douthat is, as he is “making an argument premised on the idea that suicide is generally wrong and helping someone kill themselves is generally a form of murder.” Also he starts…


Woman Allowed to Write Television Scripts

In a brave experiment, Molly McAleer, a biological woman who lives in Los Angeles, has been hired by showrunner Michael Patrick King for CBS’ “Two Broke Girls,” which was picked up by the network in mid-May, and will allegedly air between “How I Met Your…


Yale Ditches Dept. Of Anti-Jew Studies, Loses Boat Race

The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism is donezo, according to Yale, with the rationale that Jews just weren’t interesting enough, or something? Actually it was very vague! The head of the program…

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