Tag Archives: Feminism

The Left Wants to Cancel Orwell? Nope

MAGA fans of 1984 are now accusing leftists of canceling Orwell. Which is not true.

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Affirmative Action & Lessons in Chemistry

Garmus’s “Lessons in Chemistry” indirectly exposes the ignorance of the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action.

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Lady Audley’s Secret: Iron Resolve

Braddon’s 1862 novel “Lady Audley’s Secret” has a vision of female power that leaps off the page.

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Rethinking Oleanna

I’m rethinking Mamet’s “Oleanna” after seeing a Slovenian philosophy student praise it. In the past, I have hated the play for what I see as its attack on feminism.

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A Coal Poem for Attorney Woo

In an episode of “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” we encounter a poem about charcoal and selflessness.

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Is There an End to the Battle of the Sexes?

An excerpt from Rachel Kranz’s unpublished novels helps us negotiate the battle between feminism and patriarchy.

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Austen’s Mixed Feelings about Gothics

An exploration of Jane Austen’s mixed feelings about the gothic–and about lightweight lit.

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Does Lightweight Lit Do Damage?

I look at how thinkers over the centuries have viewed so-called popular or lightweight literature.

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Odysseus’s Emasculation Anxieties

“The Odyssey” is obsessed with a fear of emasculation.

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