DAREN JONESCU

Enjoying the view from Limbo

Tagged: modesty

Ideas and Reflections / What is Progressivism?

Civilization and Female Modesty: Gone With The Wind

Nothing gets deeper under the skin of feminists and their right-thinking progressive allies than the once- and long-honored notion of female modesty. This, of course, explains why the entire progressive program, from public policy and historical reinterpretation to education and popular moral messaging, has made the debunking of the “so-called differences” between men and women, and the obscuring of the very definitions of...

Ideas and Reflections

Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane

Angela Lansbury has died at ninety-six. Unfortunately, like many accomplished performers who continue to act well into their later years, Lansbury, whose primary work was in theatre, is now identified by the broader public primarily with her long-running senior citizen role in the TV series Murder, She Wrote. She also performed in some cheesy children’s movies during the 1970s. But if you want...