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Tara Zahra

Tara Zahra completed an American Prospect writing fellowship in 1999 and is now a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Recent Articles

The Antifeminist Seduction

Tara ZahraDec 19, 2001

American women are lonely and unfulfilled. They are able to cope with their dreary lives amidst seas of expensive carpeting and well-dusted furniture only by popping pills. Society has limited their choices and robbed them of their true power, leaving them resentful of the lives of quiet desperation left to them by their mothers.

The Feminism Gap

Tara ZahraDec 19, 2001

"Feminists Don't Know What to Think," declared U.S. News & World Report in late September. Pointed editorials in the Atlanta Constitution and the New York Daily News condemned "Feminism's Double Standard" and "Silent Feminists' Shame." Maureen Dowd even proclaimed in her New York Times column that feminists had committed "mass suicide" by failing to condemn Bill Clinton. Time magazine wondered—on its cover—in June: "Is Feminism Dead?"

Well, isn't it?

Art: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Account Executive

Tara ZahraNov 16, 2001