Abolishing Attention - by Santi Ruiz - Regress Studies

A brief Christmas note on things given to us.

Running along the Beach, Valencia, Joaquin Sorolla They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the devil, instead of being, as it is, a yoke consistently imposed by all lovers on themselves. - Chesterton Here are three things I read this week that, in looking back, seem to hang together. 1. I planned on writing a review of Sophie Lewis’ Abolish the Family, but Mary Harrington got there first and better. Her argument, as I understand it, goes something like this: The case for family abolition is typically made by left-wing radicals,…

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