Barbara Ehrenreich

A child is...

A child is...

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you...

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We who officially...

We who officially...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the...

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The discovery of...

The discovery of...

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years...

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Natural selection, as...

Natural selection, as...

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the...

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Anyone who has...

Anyone who has...

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers...

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Given the cultural...

Given the cultural...

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to...

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Considering the absence...

Considering the absence...

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so...

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In economics, we...

In economics, we...

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of...

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In sci-fi convention,...

In sci-fi convention,...

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the...

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A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...

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Heads of state...

Heads of state...

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho...

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There is the...

There is the...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of...

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Like many other...

Like many other...

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years,...

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It is the...

It is the...

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man...

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The media have...

The media have...

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of...

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Imagine spending four...

Imagine spending four...

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and...

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So why do...

So why do...

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because...

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Surely there must...

Surely there must...

Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's...

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The truth is,...

The truth is,...

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other...

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That's free enterprise,...

That's free enterprise,...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing --the truly democratic thing...

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