To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

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

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.