Elisabeth Badinter recently published a new book that has swept across France: Le conflit la femme et la mere. Translated as “Conflict: The Woman and The Mother,” the book makes the argument that the greatest impediment to the advance of feminism is the baby.  Simply put, women cannot reach their potential as women because their…

Elizabeth Gilbert is once again a married woman, and she has written a rather lengthy memoir in order to explain why.  In Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Gilbert explains her unexpected (and unconventional) road to marriage – and it is startling.  From her view of marriage – a concept with which she has…

In her new book, Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World, Carolyn McCulley calls Christian women to a recovery of biblical womanhood that is both counter-cultural and inherently pro-woman. On today’s program, she joins guest host Russell Moore for a conversation about her book and the issues involved for Christian women, their families, and…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad played the media like a musical instrument, greeting the captives just prior to their release. The Muslim world loved it. Tragically, the most damaging element of Ahmadinejad’s media triumph was handed to him by the Royal Navy in the person of Leading Seaman Faye Turney, the only woman among the captives…

Hillary Rodham Clinton assured us fifteen years ago that she is no Tammy Wynette. Nonetheless, her presidential campaign strategy reveals that she and the late country music diva agree on at least one thing: “Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman.” On today’s program, Susan Estrich joins guest host Russell Moore to consider the implications…