“The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality.”

— Ilana Mercer

"MacKinnon's Textual Harassment" http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmConservative-2006jan16-00033 The American Conservative, January 16, 2006.
2000s, 2006

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