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Posted inNovember/December 2023
The Lost Mystique of Betty Friedan
Later waves of feminists assailed the pioneering author and activist for focusing on women’s legal and economic rights rather than sexual liberation. Her reputation is due for a revival.
Posted inNovember/December 2023
What the Clinton Haters on the Left Get Wrong
A new book epitomizes the risible belief that the 42nd president betrayed liberals and the 1990s were a right-wing hellscape.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
The Founders Want You to Work From Home
The CEOs who would herd us back to the office are flouting a tradition of economic autonomy and productive leisure that stretches back to the American Revolution.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Greenwashing Big Ag
A bipartisan law claiming to tackle greenhouse gas emissions instead just helps the agriculture industry launder its reputation.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Liberty on the Ballot
How Biden’s freedom agenda could win him a second term and save the republic.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Don’t Blame Medicare for Rising Medical Bills, Blame Monopolies
For decades, hospitals have insisted that they charge the privately insured more to offset losses from Medicare patients. A health care regulator blows the whistle on that myth.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
How College Athletes Finally Got Paid
Antitrust lawsuits and a landmark state law were the key. But to make the system truly fair and rational, the NCAA needs to regulate, and players may need a union.
Posted inPolitics
Environmental Racism is Real. Ask Chicago.
Like many cities, it’s coping with brownfields, pollution, and minority neighborhoods with ill-health conditions. Here’s how legal action and physical relocation can provide some relief.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Home Is Where the Work Is
When I worked at the Washington Monthly in the 1980s, the most notable aspect of the office, aside from its shabbiness, was the almost total physical absence of the boss, founder and editor in chief Charles Peters. Pioneering in so many ways—his column, “Tilting at Windmills,” a collection of delightful, insightful, counter-conventional mini-essays, has often […]
