Class Action
Reviewing Charles Murray's "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010"
On the Newsstand:women
Reframing a Personality – TextsFromHillary
The meme shows a Clinton who is very different from her 2008 campaign.
David Brooks Gets Young Idealists Wrong
Aspiring world-changers shouldn't shy away from politics, but there is pragmatism to NGOs' apolitical stances.
Women in Jeopardy: Reconciliation in Afghanistan
Reconciliation between the Taliban and the Karzai government threatens to reverse much of the progress made by women in Afghanistan.
The Oprah Winfrey Ideal?
Despite some progress in women's rights, the balance between career and family can still be difficult to strike.
The Politics of Surnames
France shifts away from the millennia old tradition of surname inequality.
Lin vs. Zuckerberg: Choosing the Better Model for Harvard Leadership
Harvard students should follow the example of Jeremy Lin
An Enduring Love and Loyalty
For over thirty years, Farah Pahlavi has been forbidden from setting foot in the country she once ruled. Married in 1959 to Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, she reigned alongside him until the 1979 Islamic Revolution made pariahs of Iran’s powerful royal family, forcing them into the nightmare of exile. In her 2004 memoir An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah, Pahlavi chronicles this nightmare and the years leading up to it with a bias only a proud leader could possess.
Rigoberta Menchú and the Oral History of a Repressed People
Journalists and international officials have markedly ignored the modern history of Guatemala. The nation’s past includes a long list of wrongs against the indigenous peoples of the country, including exploitation by wealthy, mixed-race landowners and government complicity in discriminatory practices. However, until the 1983 publishing of Quiché leader Rigoberta Menchú’s controversial autobiography, the attention of the world was rarely drawn to the bloodshed and activism happening in Central America.
Smashing Silence: An Iranian Woman’s Quest for Justice
I straddled a historical boundary sitting between my father and my grandmother as I pulled back the first page of Iranian activist-lawyer Shirin Ebadi’s autobiography. I bridged mother and son, linking the experiences of a once-17-year old man who fled and of a woman who stayed and endured the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Ebadi, the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, makes a parallel connection with her memoir “Iran Awakening."
Rebutting Relativism in Beit Shemesh
Marina is right to note that the West is far from blameless in its routine objectification of women as sex objects. But let’s not rush to draw equivalencies with religious fundamentalists.
Diana Henriques
Senior financial writer at The New York Times on the Madoff family and female journalists
