Postcards From Cape Town Postcards From Cape Town
Traveling in South Africa, you learn that one great thing about the country is that no one engages in small talk.
Oct 27, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters? Feminist Mothers, Flapper Daughters?
Young feminists aren't disdaining the movement, they're claiming it—but they want a bigger place in it.
Sep 30, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Franzenfreude, Continued Franzenfreude, Continued
Literary taste-making can't be the one place in America where gendered expectations play no role.
Sep 15, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
It’s Better Over There It’s Better Over There
In Germany, a strong social safety net keeps people from plunging into the abyss. Why are we so averse to having that security in the United States?
Sep 2, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Ground Zero for Free Speech Ground Zero for Free Speech
The proposed cultural center in lower Manhattan has become the latest target of the right's all-out attack on the First Amendment.
Aug 12, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Women on Top? Women on Top?
Is our society on the verge of becoming a matriarchy? In your dreams.
Jun 24, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Abraham Lincoln, Meet Client #9 Abraham Lincoln, Meet Client #9
Americans sacrifice to pay for a militarized, increasingly unequal society. Is it any wonder that people respond to calls for selflessness with defensiveness and cynicism?
Jun 9, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Veil of Fears Veil of Fears
I don't like face-veiling either. But how does criminalizing Muslim women's clothing make them more equal?
May 26, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers? What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers?
If the boom years failed to lift poor mothers into the middle class, how are they faring now that the middle class is becoming the new poor?
May 13, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Let Us (Not) Pray Let Us (Not) Pray
For the Christian right, to reject a bigoted preacher is to deny "the right to pray."
Apr 29, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt