The Post-Partisan Emporium

The Time of Our Time James Howard Kunstler Let’s face it: most people will not read Justice Alito’s carefully crafted arguments about what the constitution says or doesn’t say about abortion, or the meaning of “ordered liberty” through our history. We do not live in history. We live in the time of our time. And, until just recently, this has been a time that discarded former modes of conduct between men, women, and children as inconvenient to the presumably greater project of self-actualization. To  be-all-that-you-can-be  is a stirring notion, and it seemed to work nicely within the colossal techno-industrial armature of the past century, with all its inducements to thrive personally, at least for the comfortable elites who pulled the levers of that system — though not so much for those below caught in the gears, who produced children despite all the novel means for avoiding it. For the fortunate, motherhood became just another “no” box to check off, while fatherhood merged into the o

On Losing "Roe" How Could this Possibly have Happened? Easy. Pro-Choice Movement, Look in the Mirror Dr Naomi Wolf Last Friday, in a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down the ruling  Roe v Wade  via its decision on  Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization . Across the country, understandably, frightened and angry young women are protesting; screaming and weeping. The organized, institutional, heavily funded US feminist movement, which for fifty years has predicated American feminist ideology, and its own donor appeals, on the foundation of defending  Roe , is calling this ruling a travesty. I am going to argue that the defeat of  Roe  is not in fact a defeat of women but a necessary evolution in the law, in response to women’s ascendancy in America over the last fifty years. Before I do, though, I warn that the  Roe  decision is being used as a pretext for a campaign to delegitimize the Supreme Court. This anti-SCOTUS campaign fits in as part of the larger war on our