Not everything is a social construct. Some things are made out of wood.
--apparently Nicola Karras, on Twitter?

THINGS I'M READING: The NY Sun retrospective at Culture11... anytime you namecheck J. Jonah Jameson you get my attention!

Helen Rittelmeyer's senior essay: "Decadence, Christianity, And Oscar Wilde's Conversion to Catholicism." Profound and provocative. Your must-read for the day.

Nicola Karras's reply to objections.

PoMoCon praising Nalin Ranasinghe's literary look at Plato. I must read this!!!

A QUESTION WITH NO SATISFACTORY ANSWER: What does it mean that Nicola Karras's how-I-turned-Right post doesn't mention anything that might be called a "woman's issue"?

I'll note that she posted it on an all-lady blog, which sort of complicates the situation. But I'm trying to imagine a black conservative's similar "political autobiography" with no mention of race; or (I am nothing if not provincial!) a gay conservative's etc etc. Even on an all-black or all-gay blog, I think the "identity" questions would've been treated explicitly.

What does that mean?

I think it does mean something, despite the obvious problems of extrapolating from a sample size of NICOLA.