March 18, 2008
Politics and Art: Feminism and some humble pie
The Brooklyn Museum hit the headlines several years ago playing its role in the wonderful piece of political theater set in motion when it exhibited Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary . Growing up as a provincial Manhattanite of the classic sort, I had never made it to the BM until this weekend, when we were visiting friends who live...
March 07, 2008
March 05, 2008
Math is hard
Two dispatches this week from the “is our girls and women learning?” wars. Elizabeth Weil writes about the nascent movement for single-sex education in public schools, and Christina Hoff Sommers takes on efforts to socially engineer the equal representation of women in science and engineering PhD programs. (Charlotte Allen’s “Women are dumb” doesn’t make the cut.) These arguments over the...
February 02, 2008
January 30, 2007
Lowering the temperature of the abortion debate
Why do pro-choice people think of the right-to-life folks as a bunch of ignorant, hate-filled, anti-feminist sexual-purity fanatics? Because that's who the RTL's have accepted as their leadership.
April 05, 2006
