Hume and Aristotle on Women

Or, "How to think about great philosophers spouting embarrassing bullshit."

“The past,” L.P. Hartley wrote in his 1953 novel The Go-Between, “is a foreign country…”

1953 itself had long since been annexed by that foreign country when Stephen King wrote his book Hearts in Atlantis. The title comes from an extended metaphor about the past (by then the 1960s) as a kind of lost world. It’s not King’s best book, but it has its moment…