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The Life of a Grand Old Liberal
Moses Harman (1830–1910) is the sort of social visionary whom historians often overlook, even though his influence during his own lifetime was immense. Harman lived most of his life in the American midwest, sharing many of the values that are associated with the region: he was a soft-spoken, hard-working, and devoted family man with an [...]
1Feb1999 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedHigher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt
Johns Hopkins University Press • 1997 • 314 pages • $35.95 cloth; $16.95 paperback Thomas Bertonneau is the author of Declining Standards at Michigan Public Universities and teaches literature at Central Michigan University. Richard Cutler is president of the Michigan Association of Scholars and a former vice president of the University of Michigan. Science, along [...]
1Feb1999 | Thomas F. Bertonneau | 0 comments | ContinuedGertrude B. Kelly: A Forgotten Feminist
Contemporary feminism’s preoccupation with its collectivist past has served to silence the voices of early individualist women. A perfect example is Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly (1862–1934), whose contributions to women’s rights are long forgotten. Like most early individualist feminists, Kelly insisted that individual autonomy and responsibility constituted the building blocks of social order and cooperation, [...]
1Oct1998 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedIndividualist Feminism: The Lost Tradition
Women are, and should be treated as, the equals of men. For many, that sentiment forms the core of feminist theory and policy. But historically, there has been substantial disagreement within the feminist movement over the meaning of the term equality. Does it mean: equality under existing laws; equality under laws more just than existing [...]
1Aug1998 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | ContinuedAre Women Being Victimized by the Market?
One of the many false but frequent criticisms of the marketplace is that it discriminates against women. It goes like this: if the market is fair, why do women own fewer businesses and earn less than men for doing the same work? Groups organized for the purpose of getting government to intervene insist that women [...]
1Apr1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedMises’s Legacy for Feminists
The name of the eminent Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises does not commonly arise in feminist circles, which tend to view the free market as an institution through which men as a class oppress women as a class. If the subject of Mises ever did arise, the political incorrectness of his observations on female nature [...]
1Sep1997 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Economic Costs of Sexual Harassment
Ms. Larson has written on women’s business issues for Investor’s Business Daily, American Enterprise magazine, and the Knight-Ridder Financial News Service. An earlier version of this article appeared in the Spring 1996 issue of The Women’s Quarterly. Sexual harassment is “subtle rape,” or so says psychologist John Gottman. Judging from the millions of dollars U.S. [...]
1Aug1996 | Elizabeth Larson | 0 comments | Continued-
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