Some of the rules guiding these nominations are affirmative action (AA)¹ policies intended to increase the influence of and to encourage nomination of women and minorities. […] A review of the extant literature on AA and its effect on decision-makers produces competing hypotheses about the potential impact on female candidates seeking party nomination.

It is unclear whether oxidative stress may be acting peripherally or proprioceptively to drive abnormal grooming behavior (e.g. via itch), or whether oxidative stress is acting centrally in the brain.

Oh, hang him? He's a very Anchorite—a young Hermit!

I would like to comment only on the question mark in the topic – and raise several questions for our discussion hidden within that question mark, questions integral to the ongoing debates since [John] Calvin, integral to the historically extended and socially embedded argument within the Reformed tradition about the very goods that constitute that tradition (adapting Alasdair MacIntyre's description of a living tradition).