Christina Sommers
Resident scholar, AEI. Former philosophy professor. Author of War Against Boys. Host of YouTube’s The Factual Feminist & co-host of weekly podcast @Femsplainers
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My Testimony on Reparations
Editor’s note: Coleman Hughes delivered the following testimony at the United States’ congressional hearing on bill H.R. 40, which, if passed, would establish a commission for reparations. Thank you Chairman Cohen, ranking member Johnson, and...
The Femsplainers Podcast: Sam Harris on Love, Marriage & Breaking Bad Habits: on Apple Podcasts
Show The Femsplainers Podcast, Ep Sam Harris on Love, Marriage & Breaking Bad Habits: - Jun 25, 2019
Why Harvard Was Wrong to Make Me Step Down
Some students may have felt unsafe because I represented Harvey Weinstein. But feelings alone should not drive university policy.
The Problem With “When They See Us”
The Netflix four-part miniseries When They See Us, a dramatization of the story of the Central Park Five—the black and Hispanic teenagers convicted in the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York and later exonerated by a confession and DNA...
Lillian Gish Name Removed From Campus Theater For ‘Birth Of A Nation’ Role
Bowling Green State University has removed actress Lillian Gish’s name from a campus theater because of her part in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. Gish starred in the 1915 silent fi…
Job vacancy: a researcher for The Spectator
The Spectator is growing – and hiring. We’re looking for a researcher for fact-checking, data reporting and editing news for our daily emails. We’d like someone who can find a story in figures…
IWF.org: Are American Women's Rights in Jeopardy?
Christina Hoff Sommers sounds off on the Equal Rights Amendment on this week's episode of She Thinks.
Focal Point: Harvard Professor Steven Pinker says the truth lies in the data
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, points to a number of instances where the use of anecdotes over data creates a false narrative.
Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance
We’re drawn to tales of fierce resistance by oppressed minorities. But those stories can blind us to how social progress happens.
Christina Sommers
Splendid article:”Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance - By Anthony Appiah.
“What minorities need is not allyship but alliances — alliances cemented by a shared perception of the moral universe, with no group giving dictation to another.”
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Splendid article:”Stonewall & the Myth of Self-Deliverance” by Kwame Anthony Appiah.
“What minorities need is not allyship but alliances — alliances cemented by a shared perception of the moral universe, with no group giving dictation to another.”
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For years, LGBTQ+ couples didn’t get tax benefits. Elizabeth Warren wants to fix that.
LGBTQ+ Americans have historically received unjust treatment by the United States government, but some politicians are now looking to correct past wrongs. On June 20, Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren…
A firsthand report of 'inhumane conditions' at a migrant children's detention facility
The Associated Press details grave conditions inside a Texas migrant detention facility where 250 infants, children and teenagers were being held without adequate food, water or sanitation during a recent visit. Warren Binford, a law professor at...
E. Jean Carroll: Pressing charges against Trump would be 'disrespectful' to rape victims at the border
Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll said she would not bring rape or sexual assault charges against President Trump because such an action would be disrespectful to migrant women being raped at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Glenn Loury: 'Affirmative action is dishonest. It's not about equality, it's about covering ass'
Brown University economist Glenn Loury (pictured above) is profiled in today's Chronicle of Higher Education titled "Affirmative Action Is Not About Equali
Policy Focus: Equal Rights Amendment
Long thought dead, the left has resurrected the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which ostensibly grants women equality under the law, in recent years.
That Story About Kids Growing Horns Because of Smartphones Is Fake News
Researchers made no effort to link the two.
Kathleen Hale Came For Her Goodreads Critic. Then The Internet Came For Her.
Five years ago, Kathleen Hale wrote an essay for the Guardian — about targeting a Goodreads reviewer — that nearly ended her career. Now, she’s back with a new book that some people say never should have been published.
This Brand Created a Gender-Neutral Menstrual Cup — Here's Why That's Important
I identify as bleeding.
U.S. women near milestone in the college-educated labor force
This year will likely be the first year in which women are a majority of the U.S. college-educated labor force.
Christina Sommers
Women near majority of college-educated workforce in U.S. | Pew Research Center
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