Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
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2012-01-31
| One of Iraq’s only working filmmakers, Oday Rasheed – whose brilliant "Qarantina" follows a group of characters in Baghdad after the US-led invasion in 2003 – is in Manhattan. And Americans can't seem to stop apologizing when they see his work.... read |
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2011-12-30
| What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began in Tunisia crest in lower Manhattan, or is 2012 likely to see an escalation of the politics of dissent?... read |
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2011-11-30
| Americans have lost their faith in those who, in the boom times, purred, “Trust us.” The new American dream – a flock of chickens and a jar of pickles – represents the insight that the only people whom Americans can trust in a crisis are themselves.... read |
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2011-10-31
| Following the East German Communists’ brutal crackdown on protesting workers in June 1953, Bertolt Brecht famously asked, “Would it not be easier…for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?” Across America, and in too many other countries, supposedly democratic leaders seem to be taking Brecht’s ironic question all too seriously.... read |
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2011-09-30
| When poor countries choose to oppress their own women, they are to some extent choosing their own continued poverty. Female oppression is a moral issue, but it also must be seen as a choice that countries make for short-term “cultural” comfort, at the expense of long-term economic and social progress.... read |
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2011-08-31
| In the wake of the riots in England, Prime Minister David Cameron has proposed reviving children’s courts, urged harsh sentences for convicts, and floated even more odious ideas. We already know where such measures would lead the country.... read |
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2011-08-01
| Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are real feminists – even if they do not share policy preferences with the already recognized “sisterhood,” and even if they themselves would reject the feminist label. In the case of Palin – and especially that of Bachmann – we ignore the wide appeal of right-wing feminism at our peril.... read |
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2011-06-30
| Could the widespread availability and consumption of pornography in recent years actually be rewiring the male brain, affecting men’s judgment about sex, and leading to more difficulty with impulse control? There is an increasing body of scientific evidence to support this idea.... read |
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2011-05-31
| Consensual sex between adults is no one else’s business. But now that public figures are susceptible to being watched three-dimensionally, the chances of being compromised are far higher than they were in the days of the UK’s Profumo affair.... read |
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Yale’s Safe Sex Criminals
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In October 2010, the brothers of George W. Bush’s former fraternity at Yale University marched through the campus chanting, “No means yes! Yes means anal!” while holding signs reading, “We love Yale Sluts.” Now, after sweeping such incidents – and much worse – under the rug for decades, Yale is facing a lawsuit and a federal investigation.... read
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2010-07-30
| There has always been tension in the US between church-state separation and regular upsurges of religious faith that seek an outlet in the political process – or even seek to dominate it. Nowhere is this tension more visible today than in the struggle for the political soul of the Tea Party.... read |
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2010-01-29
| James Cameron’s film Avatar is notable for two revealing themes: the raw, guilty template of the American unconscious in the context of the “war on terror” and late-stage corporate imperialism, and the film's very critical portrayal of America – for the first time ever in a Hollywood blockbuster – from the point of view of the rest of the world.... read |
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2008-08-30
| Westerners frequently interpret the veiling of Muslim women as a form of political and sexual repression. But, for many Muslim women, rather than suppressing their sexuality, Islam embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channeling – toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home.... read |
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2008-06-19
| Sex crime has a telltale signature, even when those directing the outrages are some of the most powerful men and women in the United States. How extraordinary, then, to learn that one of the perpetrators of these crimes, Condoleezza Rice, has just led the debate in a special session of the United Nations Security Council on the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.... read |
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2008-10-30
| We are entering a golden era of citizen speculation, documentation, and inference that takes shape, usually on the Internet, and spreads virally around the globe, pulling conspiracy theories from the margins of discourse, where they usually remained in the past, into the center. While these theories are often wildly irrational, the cause of their appeal is not.... read |
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2010-01-29
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| James Cameron’s film Avatar is notable for two revealing themes: the raw, guilty template of the American unconscious in the context of the “war on terror” and late-stage corporate imperialism, and the film's very critical portrayal of America – for the first time ever in a Hollywood blockbuster – from the point of view of the rest of the world.... read |
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2010-06-30
| Fashion has been transformed by the recent emergence of retail chains that hire good designers to make throwaway clothing and accessories that are right on trend. But what has been liberating for Western women is a system built literally on the backs of women in the developing world.... read |
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2009-03-03
| In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the 1930’s, President Barack Obama's approval ratings remain remarkably high, with respondents consistently saying that he “cares about people like me.” A large share of the credit for this should go to his wife.... read |
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2008-12-31
| As the US prepares to celebrate the inauguration of its first African-American president, it showcases again one of the best aspects of its national identity. Indeed, Barack Obama’s example – and that of his newly formed cabinet, which includes many accomplished leaders from ethnic or racial “out-groups” – holds useful lessons for other nations, particularly in Western Europe.... read |
2011-05-31
