My Name for Hope
Democratic socialism offers a vision of a good life—that we can share wealth and power and knowledge, be less selfish and cruel, and let everyone, not just the lucky few, develop their talents.
Fall 2024
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Feminists on All Sides
Desire is shaped by social assumptions and prejudices, Amia Srinivasan argues in The Right to Sex. So what does one do about it?
The Left Needs Free Speech
What gives leftists the space to promote unpopular positions is the respect most Americans give to free speech.
Reclaiming Abortion Rights
How can the reproductive rights movement start to win again? “Start” is the operative word. We’re getting crushed out there.
Symposium: Katha Pollitt
I want to focus on the question of patriotism. If an American child and a Peruvian child were drowning, would you rush to save the American child first? If you were in charge of feeding an international crowd of travelers …
A Right to Marry? Katha Pollitt
A Right to Marry? Katha Pollitt Responds
Response to Zelda Bronstein 
Zelda Bronstein thinks I’ve been too easy on Hillary Rodham Clinton. Maybe that was so in 1992, when I published articles in Glamour and in the Nation that explored the extent to which criticism of HRC was motivated by sexism …
Feminism at the Crossroads
Feminism, like Broadway, the novel, and God, has been declared dead many times. Indeed, unlike those other items, it has been declared dead almost since its birth—by which I mean its modern rebirth in the 1960s. Feminism has also, as …
