Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to have. History shows when millions just don't go along, resist at any level - and I'm talking about all the way up to bipartisan impeachment and arrest of the leaders of the coup - then it can't happen.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.