Linda Hirshman is the author of Get to Work: And Get A Life Before It’s Too Late (Penguin, 2007) as well as various articles, most recently “Looking to the Future: Feminism Has to Focus” in the Washington Post, Sunday, June 8, 2008. Before she took the vow of poverty and became a freelance writer she was the Allen/Berenson Visiting Professor of Feminism and Women’s Studies at Brandeis University.

Blog Entries by Linda Hirshman

Chapter Seven: Underground Jeep

2 Comments | Posted October 21, 2008 | 09:58 AM (EST)


"Feeling better?"
It was the woman again. Daylight was filtering through the open door from what she now knew was an empty room. What was she, the housekeeper or something? She was pretty young to be a single woman, even if she was sort of plain. There were...

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Red State, Chapter Six: Waiting

Posted October 17, 2008 | 08:54 AM (EST)


A hundred plus years ago runaway slaves escaped to the North, pursued by their owners and the federal marshals. I was teaching my law students about the legal battles over the runaway slaves when I suddenly realized that this was what the world could be like if the Court...

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Red State, Chapter Five: A Rainbow Road

2 Comments | Posted October 14, 2008 | 08:14 AM (EST)


A hundred plus years ago runaway slaves escaped to the North, pursued by their owners and the federal marshals. I was teaching my law students about the legal battles over the runaway slaves when I suddenly realized that this was what the world could be like if the Court...

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Red State, Chapter Four: Old Spice

4 Comments | Posted October 10, 2008 | 10:53 AM (EST)


A hundred plus years ago runaway slaves escaped to the North, pursued by their owners and the federal marshals. I was teaching my law students about the legal battles over the runaway slaves when I suddenly realized that this was what the world could be like if the Court...

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Red State, Chapter Three: Garaged

1 Comments | Posted October 7, 2008 | 08:43 AM (EST)


A hundred plus years ago runaway slaves escaped to the North, pursued by their owners and the federal marshals. I was teaching my law students about the legal battles over the runaway slaves when I suddenly realized that this was what the world could be like if the Court...

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Red State, Chapter Two: Dream

Posted October 6, 2008 | 05:34 PM (EST)


A hundred plus years ago runaway slaves escaped to the North, pursued by their owners and the federal marshals. I was teaching my law students about the legal battles over the runaway slaves when I suddenly realized that this was what the world could be like if the Court...

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Red State, Chapter One: Safe

5 Comments | Posted September 30, 2008 | 08:14 AM (EST)


A hundred plus years ago runaway slaves escaped to the North, pursued by their owners and the federal marshals. I was teaching my law students about the legal battles over the runaway slaves when I suddenly realized that this was what the world could be like if the Court...

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Is the Woman in the Year of the Woman Sarah Palin?

Posted September 4, 2008 | 12:05 PM (EST)


I just heard Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC reporting a conversation with a female delegate at the Republican convention last night. Before vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech, the delegate allegedly told Mitchell that she was pro-choice and therefore little inclined to support Palin, who believes that the government should force...

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Nice Point Hillary, Now We'll Just Wait for McCain to Make It

Posted August 20, 2008 | 01:17 PM (EST)


The legendary cartoon -- I think it was the New Yorker -- had a bunch of men and one woman sitting around a conference table. All eyes are on her, but it is the man at the head of the table who is speaking. "Nice point, Mary," he says. "Now...

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Liberal Principles Part III

Posted July 2, 2008 | 08:34 AM (EST)


Click here to read part I and part II


Third Principle: Minimal Altruism for Everyone Else

With the emergence of non-state actors in global affairs -- Al Qaeda being only the best known of many -- the question of how to treat people living in...

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Liberal Principles II: People Are Political Animals

Posted July 1, 2008 | 09:27 AM (EST)


This is Part II of a three part article. Part III will appear here tomorrow. Read Part I here.

Ever since the right launched its campaign to demonize the term, liberals have been worrying about their philosophical principles. When asked during the Democrats' You Tube debate, Hillary Clinton suggested...

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Liberal Principles

Posted June 30, 2008 | 09:43 AM (EST)


This is Part I of a three part article. Parts II will appear here tomorrow and part III on Wednesday.

I. Introduction: Reveille for Liberals

The Democrats smell blood. In the big Pew Trust survey of party identification, the Democrats' lead has gone from three points four years...

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The Everybody Movement Is A Nobody Movement

Posted June 12, 2008 | 12:36 PM (EST)


In their article for the Huffington Post Wednesday, Shireen Mitchell and Adele Stan take me on for criticizing intersectional feminism. Their headline ("A Feminist Focus Includes Everybody") makes my case better than I ever could. "We feminists" they cite me as saying "are just too damed (sic) concerned about things...

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