the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

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

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

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

Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

My goal is to be accused of being strident.