The Cult With No Leader
Cults don’t need compounds, robes, or a man with a microphone. The most effective ones don’t lock you in from the outside. They live in your own mind. Last spring I said the title of my book out loud at a dinner party. I know better now. A woman across the...
Did You REALLY Consent to Monogamy?
Before we decide who broke the agreement, we should ask whether either person was ever free to refuse it.
The Most Forbidden Conversation in Modern Love
Why so many good people are privately struggling in love, what decades of science say about the real reason, and what this newsletter is here to do about it.
The Invention We Mistook for Human Nature
Lifelong sexual exclusivity showed up in the last two percent of our time on this planet. It arrived with agriculture, spread with empire, and we’ve been calling it human nature ever since.