Israel, There and Here Israel, There and Here
Refugee camp invasions. Suicide bombers. House demolitions. Suicide bombers. Arrests of children, curfews, roadblocks, collective punishments, dropping one-ton bombs on densely...
Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
School’s Out School’s Out
When the New York City Board of Education called on public schools to bring back the Pledge of Allegiance in the wake of 9/11, my daughter, a freshman at Stuyvesant High, thoug...
Jul 3, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Ashcroft [heart] Iran Ashcroft [heart] Iran
What would the world look like if women had full human rights? If girls went to school and young women went to college in places where now they are used as household drudges an...
Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Special Rights for the Godly? Special Rights for the Godly?
Let's say I'm a Jehovah's Witness, and I get a job in an understaffed emergency room where, following the dictates of my conscience, I refuse to assist with blood transfusions ...
Jun 6, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
And Another Thing… And Another Thing…
Perhaps there's a limit to female masochism after all. To the great astonishment of the New York Times, which put the story on page one, Creating a Life, Sylvia Ann Hewlett's b...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Regressive Progressive? Regressive Progressive?
As chairman of the fifty-nine-member Congressional Progressive Caucus and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has ...
May 9, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Backlash Babies Backlash Babies
A long time ago I dated a 28-year-old man who told me the first time we went out that he wanted to have seven children. Subsequently, I was involved for many years with an alre...
Apr 25, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Four Rms, Rent Slashed, Sad Vu Four Rms, Rent Slashed, Sad Vu
Having a hard time finding a new apartment to fit your budget? Consider a move to the blocks around Ground Zero. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the body set up by f...
Apr 11, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Adventures in Book Reviewing Adventures in Book Reviewing
Back in 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers accused The New York Times Book Review of unfairly assigning her attack on the women's movement, Who Stole Feminism?, to the distinguished sc...
Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
God Changes Everything God Changes Everything
Let's say there was a school system or a chain of clinics on whose professional staff were a certain number of men who molested the children in their care and who, whenever this ...
Mar 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt