Elinor Ostrom, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and learning to see the women who have shaped the world
Well-behaved women seldom make history, but they should.
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Emma Watson is right. Feminism is about choice.
Watson offered up a simple truism about feminism that is more powerful than it might sound: “Feminism is about giving women choice.”
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Mercy Otis Warren: Conscience of Great Causes
Two centuries before “women’s lib,” in the run-up to America’s Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren was already a liberated woman by the standards of her day. And she did the liberating herself. In the latter half of the 18th century, Warren was an accomplished poet, playwright, pamphleteer, and historian — though much of what she […]
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Vivien Kellems: “Please Indict Me!”
“All our liberties are due to [wo]men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.”
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3 women who inspired the modern libertarian movement
Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand together comprise the “founding mothers” of modern libertarianism.
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Women prosper when markets are free
Today is International Women’s Day and, in some of the least surprising news of the day, it turns out that women’s equality ties into economic freedom. International Women’s Day was founded by the American Socialist Party in 1909 and usually ends up celebrating women in government, politics, and statism, but let’s look at something else. […]
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The battle to make America wet again
The forgotten story of how American women turned the tide against Prohibition and reclaimed the moral high ground from the dry movement.
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