The Post-Partisan Emporium

  When Were New Yorkers Who Died as Hospital Inpatients in Spring 2020 Admitted to the Hospital--and Why Does It Matter? The one numerical dataset I'd like to have more than any other Jessica Hockett If I could get only one numerical dataset for the New York City mass casualty event in spring 2020, it would be the hospital admission dates for every in-hospital death recorded between September 1, 2019 and May 31, 2020. 1 Because I would  really, really  like to know what proportion of deaths were people already in the hospital when the emergency period began. 2  The same data for U.S. as a whole — and for  Bergamo,   Madrid ,  London ,  Manaus (Brazil) , and anyplace else that reported an incredibly fast and high mass-death toll in those weeks — would be also be nice to have. What makes that data so important, in my view? Think back to early 2020: Officials and  dashboards  gave everyone the  impression  that a significant porti...

  Feminist gender theory is all in good fun until a woman gets punched in the nose If the boxing match between Angela Carini and Imane Khelif tells us one thing, it’s that feminists are still allergic to accountability Janice Fiamengo “Realistically, we know that a well-trained woman, a tall and muscular woman, a woman who has learned the arts of self-defense, a woman soldier, or a woman astronaut is a match for most men. If women and men of the same size and training are matched, men may not necessarily be physically superior because women have greater endurance, balance, and flexibility”  (Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancey Martin, “ The Socially Constructed Body: Insights from Feminist Theory ,” p. 242). ** A few years ago, if one had said there were vast strength differences between men and women that mattered in competitive sports and elsewhere, that was a misogynistic remark. Feminist wisdom told us that sex differences in physical ability were predominantly caused by soc...