Setting fire to my house was an act of radical self-love
One of my favorite pastimes is reading those alternate-lifestyle essays that the left-wing media loves to publish unironically. You know the sort: Why I quit my job at a high-powered social media firm to become a minimum-wage pansexual. Or: How my open relationship with three maple trees and a rhinoceros helped me find inner peace. The august New York Times rarely indulges such deviancy, if only because the cardinal rule of that paper's op-ed page is to never let down one's guard lest one accidentally say something interesting. Yet recently the Times did make a modest exception. Last week it ran an essay by Lara Bazelon titled 'Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love’.
