Over at Jezebel, Susan Braudy takes us waaayyy back to 1969 for a tale of consciousness raising Playboy-style, when Playboy’s editors decided they would take a poke at this feminism thing by hiring a woman (yes, you heard that right) to write about it. As Susan tells it, she was encouraged by her agent to…
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Richard Holbrooke, acting bold, sort of
Richard Holbrooke, former ambassador to the United Nations back in the Clinton days, doesn’t mince words when describing the Bush Administration’s efforts to eliminate the poppy crop in Afghanistan: “the program, which costs around $1 billion a year, may be the single most ineffective program in the history of American foreign policy. It’s not just…
What sort of man reads Playboy?
Well, not me, though God knows I’ve tried. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been gnawing away at Playboy Cover to Cover: the Fifties, an indispensable compendium of Playboy’s first bloom. Yet in the old days, people really did read Playboy—not for the articles, but for the fiction. For Hef and the gang, fiction…