Tag Archives: feminism

The Smug Life: Having It All

Only in America would a woman with a husband, two children and her dream job at the State Department (with a back-up position as a tenured Princeton professor) complain that she can’t have it all. And only in America would the media gather around and commiserate. In the current issue of The Atlantic, Anne-Marie Slaughter, […]

Mother Earth’s Biological Clock

The earth’s seven billionth baby was born recently, and it turned out to be just another story of the week. Procreation is the most sacred of sacred cows for politicians and the media. Republicans are joined at the hip to the religious right, and the religious right dances around a male deity (who had a […]