Why does it matter? The blank slate is false. With the use of twin and adoption studies as well as genome-wide association studies, scientists have shown that psychological differences are ...

Located just off Park Avenue, the 4,000-square-foot apartment was “a blank slate,” as she puts it, when she was brought on by the clients. Too blank, in her opinion. “As many of these new ...

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Bryan Lowder and historian Ben Miller discuss how romanticized notions of ‘primitive’ cultures influenced white gay men’s sense of self and activism.

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In an Oct. 25 Politics, Scaachi Koul misstated that Usha Vance addressed her husband’s “childless cat lady” comments in an Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson in August. The interview was ...

“Have you any experience with patients who suddenly understood something,” writes Jenny Slate in her new essay collection, Lifeform (Little, Brown), “and then even though they had other ...