Trigger Warning!

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 9. Anti-feminist icons remembered (the late Phyllis Schlafly) and welcomed (special guest Midge Decter). PC campus culture debated.
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9 Sep 2016

Phyllis Schlafly and the Conservative Movement

by Mary Ellen Bork

Phyllis Schlafly, who died on September 5, was the bane of feminists: a one-woman powerhouse of articulate conservative political positions, who relentlessly defended faith-and-family issues from liberal onslaughts. Continue Reading »

7 Sep 2016

Echoes of Phyllis Schlafly

by Charlotte Allen

Schlafly deserves to be remembered for what she actually was. She was a brilliant student. She was a stay-at-home mother who launched a full-time career as a political activist and public speaker from nearly the day her first child was born, doing a neat end-run around the feminists who claimed to have invented the idea that a married woman could have a professional life. She was a formidable debater and a prolific author to the very end. Continue Reading »

7 Sep 2016

The Great Woman Theory of History

by Charlotte Allen

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade by Donald T. Critchlow Princeton University Press, 438 pages, $29.95 Phyllis Schlafly never registered much with me. I knew her mostly as the woman who managed to stop the Equal Rights Amendment dead in its tracks in 1982. That was . . . . Continue Reading »

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