The claim The claim is narrow and it should be stated precisely, because the loose version of it is indefensible and the precise version is not. An eighteen-year-old woman is the best available judge of whether an older partner is fit. Not the best judge of his finances, his politics, or his character in every…
The Threshold Is Not a Line. It Is a Cliff. You have been sold a story—a comfortable, linear fable of gradual maturation, of steady steps from adolescence into adulthood, of a gentle slope upward into responsibility. It is a lie. The biology knows it is a lie. The epigenome knows it is a lie. And…