Tag: feminism
Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Professor Lauren Hall
April 5, 2017 | Post
If you missed the Reddit AMA with Professor Lauren Hall last week, fear not! We’ve taken the liberty of compiling some of the highlights for your viewing pleasure. You can check out the whole thing here. Dr. Hall is associate professor of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author of Family and […]
Emma Watson is right. Feminism is about choice.
March 30, 2017 | Post
Watson offered up a simple truism about feminism that is more powerful than it might sound: “Feminism is about giving women choice.”
6 women who should be on the $20 bill
March 29, 2017 | Post
We reached out to Learn Liberty professors for suggestions on great women whose achievements should earn them a place on US currency.
Anne Hutchinson: The spirit of religious liberty
March 27, 2017 | Post
Opinions of Anne Hutchinson have, shall we say, covered the waterfront. In his masterful tome, Conceived in Liberty, 20th-century economist and libertarian historian Murray Rothbard cast her as a staunch individualist and the greatest threat to the “despotic Puritanical theocracy of Massachusetts Bay.” John Winthrop, the 2nd, 6th, 9th, and 12th governor of the Massachusetts […]
Mercy Otis Warren: Conscience of Great Causes
March 25, 2017 | Post
Two centuries before “women’s lib,” in the run-up to America’s Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren was already a liberated woman by the standards of her day. And she did the liberating herself. In the latter half of the 18th century, Warren was an accomplished poet, playwright, pamphleteer, and historian — though much of what she […]
Mary Wollstonecraft: Libertarian Feminist
March 21, 2017 | Post
Almost two centuries before the women’s lib movement and a full century before the suffragettes, not all women were quiet subordinates to men. In this 1996 essay, historian Jim Powell provides us with an illuminating account of the brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century author and philosopher who never minced her words in defense of equal […]
Vivien Kellems: "Please Indict Me!"
March 13, 2017 | Post
“All our liberties are due to [wo]men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.”
Why sex work should be legal
March 6, 2017 | Post
The most straightforward reason to oppose the criminalization of the sex industry is that trading sex for money is not wrong.
Women in the draft: The wrong kind of equality
October 31, 2016 | Post
Equality in slavery is not an admirable goal even among those with the best of intentions.
Kristen Bell Criticizes Wage Gap, Unintentionally Debunks It
October 8, 2016 | Post
If women really do only earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, wouldn’t employers hire women exclusively to save on labor costs?
Professor: Feminism Is Teaching Women to Become Vulnerable, Not Empowered
August 12, 2016 | Post
Professor Laura Kipnis argues that modern day feminism is actually leading to the “disempowerment” of women.
The Tax Code Is Designed to Penalize Working Women
May 22, 2016 | Post
Editor’s Note: This is part two in a two part series from Sarah Skwire on women and liberty. You can read part one here. The Tax Code Is Designed to Penalize Working Women Shortly after writing a check to the IRS, I got an $800 bill from my accountant for her work preparing my taxes, […]
How the State Became the American Woman’s Real Enemy
May 18, 2016 | Post
Editor’s Note: This is part one in a two part series from Sarah Skwire on women and liberty. You can read part two here. I’ve been a feminist for as long as I can remember. One of our oldest family stories is of Young Sarah asking Mom why Puppy Chow had a commercial that said “Don’t […]
How Capitalism Made Modern Motherhood
May 8, 2016 | Post
Note: This piece is dedicated to my mom, as I celebrate my first Mother’s Day without her. With Mother’s Day upon us, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the vision of motherhood that we normally celebrate on this day. The holiday’s origins, interestingly enough, come from celebrations of the role of mothers in the […]
DCC Steps in to Correct Traumatic Effects of Learn Liberty’s Comments on Feminism
April 1, 2016 | Post
April Fools! Learn Liberty is back in charge, and everything the Department of Careful Communications (DCC) said about censoring and redacting our content is moot. Learn Liberty believes that the most effective way to challenge assumptions and refine ideas in a free society is to engage in respectful but frank dialogue—conversations in which we are […]
Credibility Gap on the Gender Gap
March 11, 2016 | Post
March 8th was International Women’s Day. Festivities included rallies, museum dedications, and even a Google search doodle to mark the occasion. In the spirit of the day, many commentators have called to re-double efforts for gender equality around the globe. In a less known spirit of the day, commentators also called on governments to step […]