Feminist Economics

Feminism Against Progress Mary Harrington Regnery, 2023; 256 pages, $29.99   Why did it take so long for feminism to happen? Feminists have no Archimedes or Newton, spurred to insight by bathwater or apples. Feminist thought was not translated into consciousness by a discovery like the Rosetta stone, or inaugurated by an explosively brilliant philosopher. […]

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O World, What Else Have You Got?

Redefining Rich: Achieving True Wealth with Small Business, Side Hustles, and Smart Living Shannon Hayes Ben Bella, 2021; 224 pages, $14.95   If you’d kindly turn to the index of first lines in the poetry anthology nearest you, you’ll find the O section led by two odes to the world: “O world, I cannot hold […]

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Durable Trades, Durable Families

The 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Norwegian author Knut Hamsun for his novel Growth of the Soil. It is the story of Isak, who builds a farm and a life for himself out of a tract of wilderness and little else. Isak is one durable tradesman. He makes his beginning as a shepherd and then spends a few pages meandering through farming, gardening, woodworking, and carpentry…

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The Burden of the Bondwoman

Broken Bonds Jennifer Lahl, Melinda Tankard Reist, and Renate Klein (eds.) Spinifex, 2019; 140 pages, $24.95 Charlie Sheen gained fame as an actor, but notoriety as a john. When a judge asked him why a man of his status would have any need for commercial coitus, Sheen is reported to have explained that he wasn’t […]

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