In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than a half million of the nation's Jews. And here we are now, more than 70 years later, witnessing a resurgence of xenophobia and authoritarianism, and not just in Eastern Europe.

I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.