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Libertarian Feminism

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Crossword

Deus Ex: Puzzle #92

"Cake covering"

Stella Zawistowski | 4.25.2025 8:00 AM

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Affirmative Consent

Affirmative Consent Is Back

And it's still a bad legal standard.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.12.2025 12:45 PM

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Movies

In Companion, the Killer Robot Is the Hero 

An AI sexbot undergoes a feminist awakening in this clever sci-fi thriller.

Peter Suderman | 1.31.2025 12:59 PM

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Movies

It's Been a Big Year for Feminist Body Horror

Nightbitch and The Substance both tackle female aging with gross-out horror-movie metaphors.

Peter Suderman | 12.6.2024 10:45 AM

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Crossword

Hot to Trot: Puzzle #62

"Homer's missus"

Stella Zawistowski | 9.27.2024 8:00 AM

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Free Speech

Defending Pornography in the Age of Safe Spaces: A Q&A With Nadine Strossen

The civil liberties lawyer talks to Reason about the misguided impulse to attack free speech in the name of protecting women.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.3.2024 11:30 AM

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Pornography

Defending Pornography on Feminist Grounds: A Q&A With Nadine Strossen

"There were many of us who opposed censoring pornography...precisely because of our commitment to feminist goals and principles," says the former ACLU chief.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.1.2024 11:45 AM

How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand became the founding mothers of libertarianism. | Illustrations: Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand; rickyhadi/Fiverr

Libertarian History/Philosophy

The Founding Mothers of Libertarianism

Freedom's Furies tells how three women offered their own unique defenses of individual liberty and how their disagreements anticipated the differences among libertarians and classical liberals today.

Marcus Witcher | 2.11.2023 6:00 AM

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Sex Work

Why Sex Work Should Be Destigmatized, Not Just Decriminalized

Kaytlin Bailey wants to decriminalize—and normalize—the world's oldest profession.

Nick Gillespie | 12.7.2022 2:20 PM

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Abortion

Elizabeth Nolan Brown: Abortion Prohibition, Mail-Order Pills, and Post-Roe Politics

The Reason senior editor and co-founder of the libertarian feminist group Feminists for Liberty examines a murky post-Roe future.

Peter Suderman | 7.1.2022 1:56 PM

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Obituaries

RIP Phil Harvey, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Who Expanded Human Pleasure and Human Choice

Harvey, who died last week, dedicated his life to supporting human pleasure along with the power to manage it responsibly.

Brian Doherty | 12.6.2021 2:00 PM

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Feminism

How Afghanistan Became the First 'Feminist' War

Rafia Zakaria's controversial Against White Feminism challenges the status of icons like Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Eve Ensler.

Nick Gillespie | 10.6.2021 3:59 PM

culture1 | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson, Source image: Public domain

Feminism

Will Feminists Please Stop Calling the Cops?

The women's liberation movement has gotten tied to mass incarceration. It needs to break free.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.27.2021 6:00 AM

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Sex Trafficking

Andrew Yang Is Wrong About Prostitution

The Democratic presidential candidate wants to keep prostitution customers criminalized while "decriminalizing sex work on the part of the seller."

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.23.2019 10:20 AM

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Comics

Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story

A biographical comic about a mid-century libertarian foremother

Peter Bagge | 5.1.2019 1:00 PM

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Feminism

The Women's March Distracts From America's More Pressing Injustices

The worst oppression is not by gender and feminists who pretend otherwise are a problem.

Shikha Dalmia | 1.18.2019 10:58 AM

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Women

There's a New Wage-Gap Myth Going Around and It Makes Women's Work Life Look Grim

But don't believe the dire diagnosis. New research shows a mixed bag of pay patterns for women-and men-over the past 50 years.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.4.2018 10:50 AM

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