Editorial Page: The Current Political Climate by Members of the Editorial Board

June 1, 2003

Gender and the American Ideology of War [1] At the huge peace demonstration in London on February 15, one of the larger signs appropriately urged, “Stop Mad Cowboy Disease!” Both liberals and leftists in the U.S. have had difficulty in believing that a much-discredited American film genre, the Western, could...

Queen Consorts, the Common People, and Modern Populism

Jan. 5, 2001

(part of a series in Issue 33: First Ladies? Political Wives in Seventeenth-century England) [1] Until Diana Spencer’s death on August 31, 1997, the conjunction of England’s queen consorts and populism was far from obvious. Yet this was exactly the ideological intersection her death foregrounded for those who watched and...

Class, Gender, and Public Education: A Material History of the Academy

May 1, 1999

[1] In 1994, the University of Delaware's student newspaper, The Review, printed the first in a month-long series of articles and editorials celebrating the arrival of what Esquire writer Tad Friend recently had dubbed "Do-Me" feminism. Trumpeting Friend's discovery, the lead article opened: "'Do-Me' quickens pulses," and went on to...