Our society and our laws have an outrageous biological bias. The author’s own odyssey suggests why adoption is a much-scorned but often superior alternative to reproductive heroics.
Gender & Sexuality
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Whose Body Politic?
The boundaries between public and private are murkier than ever.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Feminism and Caregiving
Career-minded feminists intent on devaluing caregiving should instead be doing its opposite—increasing its currency among men and women.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Diversity at Berkeley: Demagoguery or Demography?
The case for Cal’s admissions policy, designed to mirror the state’s population.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Invisible Woman
When Clarence Thomas called the Senate hearings a “high-tech lynching,” he turned his confirmation into a race-loyalty test for blacks. Once again, the concerns of black women were obscured.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Race, Gender and the Supreme Court
In a parody of affirmative action, the Senate failed to assess seriously Clarence Thomas’s fitness for the Supreme Court. Casualties include blacks, women, Democrads, and the Court’s own moral authority.
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Civility and Its Discontents
You are a college president facing a student accused of scrawling racial epithets on campus. Should you expel him?
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Ideas, Yes; Assaults, No
The First Amendment protects the exchange of ideas, not verbal assaults.
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The Remedy is More Speech
Slurs against groups may be painful, but suppressing speech is not the answer.