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Authors are free to ignore their editors’ advice. I often avail myself of this veto power – sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I’ll pay the price.

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Lionel Shriver

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Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.

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As a woman, I’d be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.

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May 6, 2024

As a woman, I’d be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.

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May 6, 2024

Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.

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