Is breastfeeding the new patriarchy? Elisabeth Badinter overstates her case—and overlooks what the French can really teach us about raising children.
Ann Crittenden
Ann Crittenden is an award-winning journalist, author, and lecturer. She was an economics and investigative reporter for The New York Times from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, winning numerous awards and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Prior to her work at the Times, she was a staff writer and foreign correspondent for Newsweek and a reporter for Fortune magazine. She has been a visiting lecturer at MIT and Yale, an economics commentator for CBS News, and executive director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Since leaving the Times, Crittenden has written four books and a play, in addition to numerous magazine articles for publications as diverse as Barron’s, Foreign Affairs, and Glamour.
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Tinderbox in Israel
Discrimination against Palestinians in the country is reaching frightening levels.
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Love in a Troubled Land
For Palestinians in Israel, having a family and being a citizen can be mutually exclusive.
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The Limits of Self-Interest
The idea that helping others harms them is not just wrong but destructive to democracy, Deborah Stone argues.
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Faster and Fairer
Two new books offer some thoughtful insights on the future of the American economy.
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Do This for Mom
The Motherhood Manifesto: What America’s Moms Want — And What To Do About It by Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Nation Books, 248 pages, $14.95) Leaving Women Behind by Kimberley A. Strassel, Celeste Colgan, and John C. Goodman (Rowman and Littlefield, 215 pages, $21.95) Kiki, a single mother of two and a legal secretary, had […]
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Don’t Get Mad, Get Even
Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men — And What To Do About It by Evelyn Murphy with E.J. Graff (Touchstone, 352 pages, $24.95) Just when you thought the news couldn’t get any worse, here comes a report from the trenches of the American workplace, where apparently women are still being […]
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The Friedan Mystique
In the first few days after Betty Friedan’s death, columnists seemed deeply divided about the relevance of her work today. Judith Warner in The New York Times found her description of the female “problem with no name” still fairly accurate, as marriage for the most part continues to be an unequal bargain between a primary […]
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Seven Meals from Murder
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman (Knopf, 592 pages, $35.00) Once upon a time I took an undergraduate course in the history of economic thought. The assigned text was a slim little volume whose author announced in his introduction that he intended the book for “the average man and the intelligent […]
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Their Babies Are Everything
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas (University of California Press, 312 pages, $24.95) In the American pantheon of evildoers, “welfare moms” easily outrank rotten CEOs, corrupt defense contractors, and media moguls who sell sex and sensation. No group has been as demonized, […]