It was the present pope who wrote what remains I think the clearest analysis of the problems we face in restoring some balance to a society that has demeaned fatherhood and exalted in its place not motherhood but a scheme for the "empowerment" of women.
When the Titanic sank, 75% of women and almost all the children were saved as against 20% of the men.
The headline from The Washington Post celebrates yet another milestone: "University of Virginia picks its first female president." But meantime, the data continues to mount that our educational system is massively failing one gender: boys.
Many people assume that feminism and the movement to legalize abortion are virtually synonymous.
"Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors.
G.K. Chesterton speaks of the human need for practical romance -- a mixture of something strange with something secure.
During her university years, Edith Stein (now St Theresa Benedicta of the Cross) held a strongly pro-feminist view of femininity, and as a professional woman she appreciated the gains made for women who wished to enter fields dominated by men.
The setting of The Handmaid's Tale is "the recent future." The United States has morphed into the Republic of Gilead, dominated by Christian fundamentalists, who have conscripted fertile women into a program of forced breeding.
In the past few years, stay-at-home moms have come under fire from some of feminism's most hard-line mouthpieces.
Biology, not patriarchy, is the culprit behind gender inequality in the workplace, a Montreal psychologist argues.
