Archive for the 'Politics' Category

On The Issues: Trying to get past the political rhetoric

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

As of January 2008, the most open field for presidential candidates in many, many years–especially on the Republican side. So you have been browsing around YouTube watching presidential candidates debate? A few years ago, I never thought I would get “news” through YouTube. Of course, I’m hesitant to call political debates news. News it seems [...]

A feminist on “Female Chauvinist Pigs”

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine, where she writes about sexuality, culture and gender politics. Her new book is Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. One reviewer writes that Levy “strips the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ culture of its cuteness in her provocative [book], arguing that post-feminist [...]


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