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What's wrong with modern-day feminism? What did first-wave feminists believe about abortion and family?

A recent forum was the first in a series planned at MIT this year, part of an initiative meant to encourage the open exchange of ideas.

The Civil Discourse initiative includes two components: the speaker series open to the MIT community, and seminars where students can discuss freedom of expression and develop skills for successfully engaging in civil discourse. Steve Koonin and Kerry Emanuel discussed “Climate Change: Existential Threat or Bump in the Road” on Oct. 24.

Among the most disastrous of strategic errors when confronted with illiberalism is the failure to understand that ours is a war of religion.

Purchasing a book used to be like buying a piece of fruit. Mega-publishers want to make it more like renting a movie—and a recent court ruling puts libraries in the crosshairs.

Still, it’s as well to be aware that every politics is a reaction to something, and one of the cardinal errors of modernist politics that’s delivered us into the present mess is the conceit that it somehow isn’t reactionary.

Self-declared feminists are inimical to the interests of most women and that it is people like herself who have a better right to call themselves feminists.

The “Tradwife” movement centers around a growing number of women who post content on social media platforms promoting a mid-century aesthetic, lifestyle, and traditional gender roles.

Mary Harrington, author of "Feminism Against Progress," discusses the digital world, the pill, and the rise of transgenderism.

President Biden has refused to discuss the debt ceiling with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy until Republicans produce a budget. However, McCarthy has now successfully passed a debt ceiling bill in the House and is urging the President to come to the table with Republicans, who have 'done their job'. M