Amy Sullivan

AND NOW THE MOMENT YOU’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR–GIRLS AND BLOGS….I’m still laughing from Katha’s post on male-centric blogs: “What a fine point Boygenius made over on nogirlsallowed.com! Thanks for the plug, NumberOneSon!” So perhaps now is a good time to add my thoughts on women and blogs to the mix. In theory, blogs should […]

NOW, IN SPECIAL FEMALE-FREE VARIETIES….While I still think there’s plenty to be done on the socialization side, I agree with Katha that our time here is probably best spent figuring out short-term solutions for women at the top of the spectrum (i.e., those who are already interested in opinion journalism, but find it tough to […]

ATTN: WOMEN–PLEASE WRITE FOR US….Some readers have commented that it seems like Katha Pollitt and I are having two different conversations ? one about why women at the top aren’t as prominent as they should be (gender bias) and another about why so few women enter the field at all (self-selection). On that last point, […]

A RESPONSE TO KATHA POLLITT….Many thanks to Katha Pollitt for sharing her insight and thoughts on this topic. This promises to be a good week for discussion. And I think she and I mostly agree, although you wouldn’t necessarily take that away from the flavor of her post. There are indeed many terrific, talented women […]

SILENT FEMMES….Two years ago, I had just started writing my blog when I noticed something odd: There didn’t seem to be any other women in the political blogosphere. Oh, I knew that there were female-authored blogs. But the big guys (who I defined as Josh Marshall, Eric Alterman, Tapped, the DNC, those high-profile blogs) bookmarked […]

STOP THIS MAN BEFORE HE DIAGNOSES AGAIN….I wasn’t going to comment on the Terry Schiavo case, mostly because it seems that any attention just feeds directly into what conservatives are hoping to achieve: a trumped-up culture war. (See Ed Kilgore’s comments for my general take on the issue.) But Senator Frist’s recent diagnosis—via a home-made […]

EPISCOPALIAN (AND OTHER) SOCIOLOGISTS….Fortunately for my friend Ed Kilgore, who yesterday expressed “an overpowering urge to attend the next major conference of sociologists within commuting distance to seek out its Episcopalian subgroup,” the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual conference is going on right this very moment in downtown D.C. If you’re just learning about it now, […]

WHITHER THE RELIGIOUS LEFT?….The question may not interest or disturb many people, but it should. We’ve already discussed the perfect storm that led to the nearly-inevitable rise of the Religious Right. But I’d argue that religious conservatives would never have become as powerful as they now are if their rise had been checked by anything […]

THOU SHALT NOT END LATE FEES….Others can tackle the substance of the bankruptcy bill. I’m here to find the religious angle in every conceivable policy story. According to Chuck Grassley’s hometown paper, the Des Moines Register, a national group of Christian lawyers is broadcasting its opposition to the bill on religious grounds: “As Christian attorneys, […]

I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS….Yesterday’s Washington Post headline on a story about Judge Terrence Boyle’s confirmation hearing first caught my eye, then utterly confused me, and finally reminded me that I wanted to write about my latest pet peeve: the seemingly reckless way in which terms like ‘values’ and ‘religion’ and ‘morals’ are […]