Career-minded feminists intent on devaluing caregiving should instead be doing its opposite—increasing its currency among men and women.
Gender & Sexuality
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.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Civility and Its Discontents
You are a college president facing a student accused of scrawling racial epithets on campus. Should you expel him?
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Ideas, Yes; Assaults, No
The First Amendment protects the exchange of ideas, not verbal assaults.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Remedy is More Speech
Slurs against groups may be painful, but suppressing speech is not the answer.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Dubious Conceptions: The Controversy Over Teen Pregnancy
Reports of “babies having babies” have set off alarms of a teen pregnancy epidemic. But the link between poverty and single parenthood is more complex than is often alleged.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Uneasy Case for a National Law on Abortion
Congressional action may be the one way to preserve the right to abortion nationwide. But for advocates of choice, enacting legislation will mean making some strategic compromises.
Posted inWorking in America
Fetal Risks, Women’s Rights: Showdown at Johnson Controls
For the first time, women are gaining entry to “good” jobs in manufacturing. But some companies, like battery-maker Johnson Controls, say that because of potential fetal health risks, no fertile women need apply. Should the Supreme Court let that pol