Carrie Gress thinks feminism has been misguided from the beginning, but ironically, she replicates many of the feminists' worst mistakes.

My all-too-typical, sports-and-fighting-obsessed boys are riveted by the "American Girl" books, and these "girl stories" are teaching them valuable lessons.

‎Show Federalist Radio Hour, Ep The Failed Arc Of 'Lean In' At 10 - May 8, 2023

Today’s focus on students’ “identities” is both misplaced and misleading.

Louise Perry's argument against the sexual revolution raises a difficult question for readers: Given the fraught situation in which the sexual revolution has left many women and men, where do we go...

“Banned Books Week” is here. But “banned books” are mostly a media hoax.

Gentle parenting and the refusal to exercise earned authority is contributing to mediocrity and disorder

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie blockbuster is not nearly the man-hating screed that some on the right have made it out to be.

This summer, amid a growing debate about gender identity in the United States, America asked two professors of theology to revisit the 2019 Vatican document on “‘gender theory in education.”

Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) turns 80 years old this year. The enduringly best-selling novel follows the travails of an Irish American family navigating and eventually overcomin

There is no gentle way to prepare kids for the adult reality of a harsh world

In the New York Times on Dec. 24, journalist and author Peyton Thomas argues that “Little Women” author and female American literary great Louisa May Alcott is best understood as a transgender man.…

The resultant continued devolution of academic achievement among those who can least afford it, in Chicago and across the country, will be emblematic of this era, in which progressives demonstrate …

“Banned Books Week” is here. But “banned books” are mostly a media hoax.

Many of the nation’s best and brightest students accept without question the deeply bigoted premise that anyone who claims a historically marginalized identity lacks all individual accountability. …

Requiring that children do reasonable amounts of homework can address both our academic decline and increasing fragility

COVID is a condition to which we chose how to react. In many places, we made the wrong choice.

Opinion The reduction of rigor in higher education hurts the very students it's meant to help By Elizabeth Grace Matthew September 25, 2023 06:00 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Opinion The...

Hearts that have been sufficiently filled with a sense of their own immeasurable worth grow resilient and strong, not wrinkled, in response to these [...]

Gentle parenting and the refusal to exercise earned authority is contributing to mediocrity and disorder

For the last 150 years we have deemed virtues such as courage, assertiveness, strength, reason and sacrifice to be the province of American men.

Brad Wilcox’s new book wagers that a marriage-skeptical culture can see the upshots of tying the knot.

It should have been obvious that academic outcomes would get worse if students could misbehave with impunity.

Children need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around their feelings.

It occurred to me that this sticker-centered interaction actually exemplifies the optimal way to handle so-called “gender issues” among children. 

Many of the nation’s best and brightest students accept without question the deeply bigoted premise that anyone who claims a historically marginalized identity lacks all individual accountability. …

The following review is part of RealClear Books & Culture's symposium on Mary Harrington's 'Feminism Against Progress.' Mary Harrington’s Feminism Against Progress (2023) is a sharp blade th

It used to be that most critics of the institution of marriage were on the left. Its new critics on the right have an even darker vision.

From the Pooh slasher movie to Disney lingerie, some young adults display a troubling unwillingness to put away childish things. There’s a name for them: kidults

Being a trad wife is anything but traditional. It's also not a viable model in a nation where women are primary breadwinners in 42% of families.

The debate over closures distracted from the major problems that kids face every day at school.

The GOP has it right: Abolishment of the Department of Education can’t come soon enough.

From education, to employment, to family formation, younger men are disproportionately failing to thrive in today’s America. Although conservatives were the first to sound the alarm, figures across...

For the last 150 years we have deemed virtues such as courage, assertiveness, strength, reason and sacrifice to be the province of American men.

There is anti-feminism, and there is anti-womanism that masquerades as a critique of feminism. There is anti-feminism, and there is the deliberate misinterpretation of feminism for misogynist ends....

Ten years ago this week, I got married. Before my wedding day, though, I went to the movies with my mom, to see the December 2012 release of Les [...]

Technology is undeniably part of our lives. But when should it be introduced to children, used in schools or integrated into their social lives?

Josh Hawley wants to restore manly greatness, but he cannot resist the siren song of victimhood.

The emphasis on accessorizing Barbies is an ode to, and a reflection of, a specifically feminine materialism against which many a 1960’s feminist once railed.

Religion can make motherhood appealing in the West while preserving the fruits of feminism.

This week on the West Coast, the San Bernardino Superior Court blocked a policy requiring schools to notify students’ parents if their children change gender identities, names, and/or pronouns.

The Suffragettes believed that political rights would help women to be better mothers.

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie blockbuster is not nearly the man-hating screed that some on the right have made it out to be.

When you change the words in a book, it isn’t just an altered book; it is an inevitably impoverished book, and one with neither context nor history.

Standardized tests put low-income, working-class and lower-middle-class students of every color at a real disadvantage.

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie blockbuster is not nearly the man-hating screed that some on the right have made it out to be.

COVID is a condition to which we chose how to react. In many places, we made the wrong choice.

There are lots of people who are engaged with their communities and what's going on, but don't plan on voting. “They are not talking about what we are talking about," one told me.

In the New York Times on Dec. 24, journalist and author Peyton Thomas argues that “Little Women” author and female American literary great Louisa May Alcott is best understood as a transgender man.…

If we want to enable more people to speak the truth, it is no longer enough to merely emphasize biological sex over gender identity.

The kind of feminism championed by Sheryl Sandberg doesn't particularly value the choices women make for themselves when they are genuinely empowered.

It occurred to me that this sticker-centered interaction actually exemplifies the optimal way to handle so-called “gender issues” among children. 

Today’s Democrats are a long way from the “Yes, we can” of Barack Obama.

Every denial of fact that perpetuates one individual’s self-conception comes at the expense of someone else.

Katie Roiphe based her work on one good argument, and one bad one. Feminists accepted the bad one.

COVID is a condition to which we chose how to react. In many places, we made the wrong choice.

From college to the workplace to romance, why are so many young men not in the picture?

For the last 150 years we have deemed virtues such as courage, assertiveness, strength, reason and sacrifice to be the province of American men.

The illiberal segment of the left is trying to create a world in which all the limitations of mature reality can be put off as long as possible.

Mr. Keating and his real-life counterparts now dominate secondary and post secondary education. That’s a problem.

Religion can make motherhood appealing in the West while preserving the fruits of feminism.

A society in which men consistently underachieve is ultimately a society that disserves women.

Carrie Gress thinks feminism has been misguided from the beginning, but ironically, she replicates many of the feminists' worst mistakes.

In The End of Woman, philosophy scholar Carrie Gress attempts to show that feminism is bad for women and always has been. B​​etween philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft (whose 1792 Vindicatio

For going on two decades now, no one has done female interiority quite like Curtis Sittenfeld. Her novels, each of which manages to straddle the line between serious literature and beach read, are mas

Last week, Marie Kondo said that she is “no longer quite as tidy” now that she has three children. The queen of tidy, whose books and television show have [...]

Looking back at The Sopranos 25 years later, it's clear that the show made some prescient points.

‎Show Moving Forward With Young Voices, Ep 2023 July 18 Moving Forward with Young Voices - Jul 18, 2023

It seems that Gerwig’s ambition is not to tell the story of “Little Women” through a feminist lens, but to validate post-modern feminism through the lens of “Little Women.”