"50 Shades" and the Culture War

The conservative Ross Douthat is a little riled up by the "50 Shades of Grey" phenomenon and the idea that we can have it all, sexually speaking, without anyone getting hurt.

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Shelby Foote

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He also had an expensive tendency to go through wives, creating obligations for alimony and child support. On the occasion of his third marriage, Foote wrote,“I cannot function outside the married state, no matter how much I’m galled inside it. (Nothing special about that. I think it’s true of most people: women as well as men.)”

-- Jon Meacham, "Shelby Foote's War Story" in Garden & Gun

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