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Stalking the Essay: A Conference Report4 comments

Dinty W. Moore wrote 1 month ago: A guest post from Virginia Lloyd recapping last weekend’s Stalking the Essay Conference: Phill … more →

Tags: news and events, Teaching Resources, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, Vivian Gornick

Why Did Liberals Support the Iraq War?15 comments

Corey Robin wrote 1 month ago: In September 2005, on the fourth anniversary of 9/11, The Nation ran a long piece I did on liberal s … more →

Tags: Foreign Policy, Political Theory, The Left, A. Philip Randolph, Christopher Hitchens, James Baldwin, Judith Shklar, Malcolm X, Martha Gellhorn

Leaning In11 comments

Michael LaBossiere wrote 2 months ago:  (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the wonderful things about being rich and famous (aside from being … more →

Tags: ethics, Philosophy, Politics, facebook, jodi kantor, Judith Shulevitz, Maureen Dowd, nell scovell, Sandberg

A Sinking Ship? 2 politicians jump, there may be a 3rd.8 comments

Corey Robin wrote 3 months ago: More news on the Brooklyn/BDS controversy: 1.Yet another signatory to the Lewis Fidler letter, which … more →

Tags: Education, middle east, andrew sullivan, barbara bowen, Center for Constitutional Rights, Letitia James, Lewis Fidler, Paisley Currah, PSC

Voices for the ERA: Thank you, Katha Pollitt

Zelda wrote 3 months ago: Before you read, please sign the White House Petition if you haven’t already! Vigorously suppo … more →

Tags: humanism, Feminism, ERA, activism, Politics, Feminism, Women's rights, Equal Rights Amendment, Politics 2

It’s Still Not Safe to Read The Nation11 comments

Falguni A. Sheth wrote 6 months ago: Update I (below): I thought it was safe to read The Nation again, since election season is over. I w … more →

Tags: US Politics, U S foreign policy, Election Season 2012, Feminism, Hypocrisy, Rightwing DNA

Obama and Women's Healthcare1 comment

mhasegawa wrote 9 months ago: While I was working on the last post about Akin, Ryan etc., I ran across this great summary of what … more →

Tags: Politics, Women's rights, health-care reform, 2012 election, Democrats, President Obama, Health Care, Women's Health

Common Dreams - Katha Pollitt - Gun Control? Dream On. - 12 August 2012

lucas2012infos wrote 9 months ago: Why am I even bothering to write about gun control? That was going to be my opening sentence when th … more →

Tags: ReBlog, Article, Links, 2012, Disclosure, Spiritual, News, Spiritual Evolution, Earth

10 Feminist Poets You Should Know35 comments

emilystemple wrote 1 year ago: When we think of feminist poetry, we think of Adrienne Rich, one of the most influential poets of th … more →

Tags: Books, Buzz, Adrienne Rich, alice walker, Anne Waldman, Carol Ann Duffy, Carolyn Kizer, Lyn Hejinian, Margaret Atwood

Katha Pollitt> Women: Occupy the Left

wammtoday wrote 1 year ago: Women: Occupy the Left Katha Pollitt     May 2, 2012   |   This article appeared in the May 21, 2012 … more →

Tags: Women, Human Rights, Women's rights, occupy wall street, occupy movement, occupy boston, occupy, women on the left, Occupy Austin

I may not be able to think. . .4 comments

absurdbeats wrote 1 year ago: . . . but I can link. Or steal, as it were, this time from Katha Pollitt: But the brouhaha over Hila … more →

Tags: blog theft, Work, Money, Women, Motherhood, Children, Welfare

What Katha Said21 comments

Corey Robin wrote 1 year ago: Katha Pollitt writing in the Nation about the Hilary Rosen/Ann Romney fracas: But the brouhaha over … more →

Tags: Labor/Workplace, Ann Romney, Hilary Rosen, Mitt Romney

National Poetry Month: April 19th

EPL wrote 1 year ago: Angels by Katha Pollitt They thought the job would be more musical: Rainbows and trumpets.  They … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poetry, National Poetry Month, Poem

Fiction, Non-Fiction, "Popularity," and "Seriousness"

Samir Chopra wrote 1 year ago: Back in December-January, I wrote a series of posts on fiction and non-fiction writers, in particula … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Books, Writing #2, Essayists, Books 2, Novels, Literature, London Review of Books, Non-Fiction

Women in novies: Does it pass the Bechdel Test?

Jay Stone wrote 1 year ago: Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis in The Help The new movie Fishing for Salmon in the Yemen is notable … more →

Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Hugo, midnight in paris, The help!, Ewan McGregor, salmon fishing in the yemen, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas

Love for Sale: Birth Control from Marx to Mises83 comments

Corey Robin wrote 1 year ago: From Marx… In On the Jewish Question, Marx famously critiques liberal theorists of religious freedom … more →

Tags: Political Theory, The Left, The Right, Barack Obama, birth control, brian doherty, Karl Marx, libertarianism, Ludwig von Mises

When Mitt Romney Declared War Against The Catholic Church

ffredpalakon wrote 1 year ago: A mildly provocative title, no? Brilliant tactician, deep thinker, faithful husband Newt Gingrich re … more →

Tags: Politics, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, birth control, Catholicism, hhs, Sadly No!, Joan Walsh, Catholics

Fiction, Non-Fiction, Essays, Posterity3 comments

Samir Chopra wrote 1 year ago: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post disagreeing with Katha Pollitt’s claim that (roughly), E … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Books, Richard Posner, writing, essays, Corey Robin, Jeff Sharlet, Mukul Kesavan

Progressives, Truth-telling, and Human Rights Issues6 comments

Falguni A. Sheth wrote 1 year ago: Revised version: Thanks to Glenn Greenwald’s mentions of my Jan. 6 post on this site, and thanks to … more →

Tags: US Politics, obama, Feminism, War-on-terror, Race, People of Color


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