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A prescient look at the coming postfeminist backlash by Midge Decter , the author of Liberal Parents, Radical Children and The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women’s Liberation....

When I first came to spend my days in the office of the Institute on Religion and Public Life—this was sometime in early 1990—Richard Neuhaus had been a friend...

Seeking ideas for presents this year, we asked several of our well-read friends and contributors for recommendations of a few wise, or fun, or disturbing books that every First...

A word in your ear ¯A well-known physicist told me that a popular blogger told him that an unnamed source told her that a distinguished elderly lady told the...

I never met Germaine Greer, but I did see her once in live performance—and a most diverting performance it was. The year, as I remember it, was 1970. Norman...

To speak of something called “Christian America,” as both the advocates and the opponents of this idea are nowadays at high levels of passion wont to do, is by...

The idea of population control”perhaps even the idea of population itself”seems to have come into circulation somewhere around the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Western world was in...

I know a man who spends four or five weeks of every year in the army. He is a young man, but not all that young—fortysomething—and has a wife...

Intellectual Memoirs, 1936–1938 by mary mccarthy harcourt brace jovanovich, 114 pages, $15.95 The novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was up to the time of her...