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Get Out!
Linda Hirshman set off a new skirmish in the "Mommy Wars" with her December 2005 The American Prospect article calling for women to stay out of the house and find jobs if they want respect and equality. The article is now a book and an excerpt is available as the next Brian Lehrer Show Reading Project. Plus, Jonathan Tasini, the anti-war Democrat running against Hillary Clinton in the New York primary, and New York Post columnist John Podhoretz react to the Lamont-Lieberman results in Connecticut and college-aged women respond to Linda Hirshman's admonition not to major in art.
Read Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World by Linda Hirshman
Primary Sources
Jonathan Tasini, candidate for US Senate in New York State
- on last night's primary election in Connecticut
» Jonathan Tasini's campaign website
Grating Nutmeg
John Podhoretz, columnist for the New York Post and author, Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless . . . (Crown Forum 2006) and Bush Country (Shirley & Banister Public Affairs 2004)
- on the results of the Connecticut primary
Not Just a Turnpike
John Gilman author,
O' New Jersey
(St. Martin's Press, 2006),
and
Robert Heide author,
O' New Jersey
(St. Martin's Press, 2006),
-on their new travel book O' New Jersey
Work It, Girl!
Linda Hirshman, retired as the Allen/Berenson Distinguished Visiting Professor
at Brandeis University and author,
Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World (Viking, 2006)
- on her charge that “choice feminism” is no feminism at all
» Get to Work
MRS Degree
Open phones for college-aged women on whether their majors bode well for their economic futures.
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
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From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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