New Again: Hugh Hefner
February 28, 2012
52 years ago on this leap-year day, the first ever Playboy club opened in Chicago. Whether you are fascinated, bored, amused or disgusted by Playboy‘s founder, Hugh Hefner, there is no denying his influence on 20th- and 21st-century Western culture, and many of the arguments made against Playboy in the ’60s and ’70s continue to dominate American political debates.