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You Can buy F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power here.

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Nick Jeelvy was joined by F. Roger Devlin, the author of the now-classic Sexual Utopia in Power, to discuss the women question and what is to be done about it on the latest episode of The Writers’ Bloc, and it is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include:

The origin of the problem between the sexes
Hypergamy vs. monogamy
What is the solution?
Polygamy for high-status men
The origin of monogamy
Attraction to social status (more…)

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Michael Brendan Dougherty
My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search for Home
New York: Sentinel Books, 2019

When this was first published a couple of years ago, reviewers had two distinct takes about the book. One was that it was a wistful, sometimes bittersweet memoir about growing up without a father, because the father was off in Ireland, having never married Dougherty’s American mother; and also, the author had some romantic notions about Ireland, and wasn’t that special.  (more…)