The Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jean ad—surely you’ve seen it by now. “My jeans are blue,” she says, slipping effortlessly and seductively into a pair of blue jeans. Simple enough, right? Apparently not. The left erupted in outrage—because, apparently, using a double entendre that plays on “genes” and “jeans” in a jeans commercial is being […]
Read MoreBy John S. Rosenberg In my first year of graduate school at Yale, the debate over admitting women to the college was still raging. A joke (or maybe it wasn’t) at that time was that the Old Yalies were perfectly willing for the college to go co-ed — so long as no male who would […]
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