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Setting Man Free from Men

Tiffany Jenkins’ new book passionately defends privacy as essential to human creativity, freedom, and happiness, and suggests we may still underestimate its value.

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Aug 30, 2025
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A review of Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life by Tiffany Jenkins; 320 pages; Picador, UK (July 2025).

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Secular Humanist. Promethean with Dionysian proclivities. Libertine. Conservative Marxist. Red Devil. @unherd @AreoMagazine "I drink your milkshake!"
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