Feminism

The Masculine Mystique

Articles — Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400

Manliness

by Harvey C. Mansfield

Publisher: Yale University Press $27.50

Cool off, Pilgrim. When I got me this here book of yours on manliness, I was spectin' some fine words on a subject close to my heart. Heard tell you were just about the most book-smart man ever wrote on the subject.

But a man's got to have a code to live by. And according to mine, stranger, a real man don't ride around saying things like it's "a considerable fact that almost any man can beat up almost any woman." That sounds to me like something some yeller-bellied, four-eyed… more

Margaret Talbot

Operations — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:24:00 -0400

Senior Fellow

Margaret Talbot is currently a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has also written for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, where she published numerous cover stories as a contributing writer from 1999 to 2003, and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. Her essays have been anthologized in several books, including The Best American Science Writing 2002 (Ecco/HarperCollins) and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves (HarperCollins, 2005). Ms. Talbot is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award.

As a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Ms.… more

There She Is, Miss Chinatown

Articles — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500

Just when I thought this columnist gig wouldn't pay off, I got a call from Kenny Yee, L.A.'s "Noodle King." Kenny is the president of Wing Hing Noodles, a local, family-owned firm, as well as the head of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. He called to ask me to be a judge at this year's Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Pageant. Who was I to turn him down?

Actually, for a week I went around telling anyone who would listen that I was going to be a pageant judge. I got a lot of laughs. Not surprisingly, my… more