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  • Fertility is Plummeting Worldwide

    Fertility is Plummeting Worldwide0

    A few months ago, the Pew Research Center presented some data that on the surface appeared to be very good news. The teen birth rate had reached a historic low. The teen birth rate in the U.S. is at a record low, dropping below 25 births per 1,000 teen females for the first time since

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  • Ferris Bueller’s  Vocation

    Ferris Bueller’s Vocation0

    In an attempt to confront the student loan debt bubble, most Democratic presidential candidates have promised some variant of “free” college, and Republicans are countering with their own proposals. Citing a statistic that the cost of a four-year degree doubled between 1986 and 2016, Marco Rubio proposes to regulate or privatize tuition funding sources. Given

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  • Feminists Learn the Wrong Lesson From Taylor Swift’s Engagement

    Feminists Learn the Wrong Lesson From Taylor Swift’s Engagement24

    Taylor Swift is engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and the internet is chock full of hot takes on her relationship, her upcoming marriage, and the takeaways from both. Keyboard warriors are busy making sense of it all – “Kelce is making a huge mistake,” “Swift is a trad wife now,” “the

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  • Feminists Are Furious with How ‘Justice League’ Changed the Amazonian Costumes. There’s Just One Problem.

    Feminists Are Furious with How ‘Justice League’ Changed the Amazonian Costumes. There’s Just One Problem.0

    DC’s Justice League opens Friday—less than six months after the release of Wonder Woman, a summer smash directed by Patty Jenkins. We recently had a hotly-contested interoffice conversation on the artistic merits of Wonder Woman. (Apparently not everyone thought of highly of it as I did. They clearly are wrong.) But the hot topic this

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  • Feminist: Women Can’t Have It All

    Feminist: Women Can’t Have It All0

    If you really want to see a heated debate, don’t bother with politics. Find a “mommy blog” and look for a thread or post on working moms vs. stay-at-home moms. You can almost be guaranteed that the comments will be filled with some of the most vicious vitriol you’ve ever seen. Ever since women started

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  • Feminist Researcher: STEM Classes Should Be Made ‘Less Competitive’ to Attract Women

    Feminist Researcher: STEM Classes Should Be Made ‘Less Competitive’ to Attract Women0

    Sometimes the paradoxes of PC are richly entertaining. One of my favorite journalists, Katherine Timpf, has called my attention to a peer-reviewed paper recently published by Laura Parson “suggesting that we should make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses more ‘inclusive’ of women by making the[m] ‘less competitive.’” Savor that thought for a moment.

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