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Rebecca Onion
Writer
Rebecca Onion writes about history and culture for The Boston Globe and Slate.com’s The Vault Blog, among others. She lives in Ohio.
Written by Rebecca Onion
essayHistory of ideas
What if?
Whether to kill baby Hitler might be a political firecracker, but can counterfactuals say anything deeper about the past?
Rebecca Onion
essayDemography and migration
Against generations
Generational thinking is seductive and confirms preconceived prejudices, but it’s a bogus way to understand the world
Rebecca Onion
essayFamily life
Lock up your wives!
Advice columns from decades past provide a chilling glimpse into the horrors of marriage counselling before feminism
Rebecca Onion