Author: Edan Tasca
Edan Tasca is a Toronto-based writer and editor.
Waking from Wokism: Inoculating Ourselves against a Mind Virus
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation”—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most …
Cut It Out: Circumcision Revisited
Kramer: A bris? You mean circumcision. . . . I would advise against that. Elaine: Kramer, it’s a tradition. Kramer: Yeah, well, so was sacrificing virgins to appease the gods, but we don’t do that anymore. Jerry: Well, maybe we should. —“The Bris,” Seinfeld, season 5, episode 5 The February/March 2012 issue of Free …
Snip the Snip
Picture the moment of gorgeous relief when labor is finally over and your doctor hands you your healthy baby boy. He has everything in the right place: ten, ten, two, and one. Then imagine that the doctor asks if you’d like to have one of your son’s pinky fingers removed. Confused, you ask why anyone …