Anne Elizabeth Moore

Late last year, I wrote a lengthy essay in this space postulating that Rupert (“silver Fox”) Murdoch’s 5 percent purchase of bad-boy Shane Smith’s MULTIMEDIA EMPIRE VICE (sic, more or less) was a mere token of a changing mentor/mentee relationship we would do well to ...

The gonzo gambit of Vice Media.

In 1926, the nascent sanitary napkin industry was in peril. Women, all a-flutter about their rights and whatnot, were proving resistant to giving up their maternally derived tendencies to make their own sanitary products. Traditionally, women sewed pads from castaway fabrics, ...

Much of what passes for feminism these days is concerned exclusively with how things look. Discussions frequently focus on the rights of women—whether cis or trans—to appear in public without conforming to traditional beauty standards; or what has or hasn’t been ...

In one way or another, last year’s frenzied election spectacle offered an array of occasions for our coverage-battered electorate to return to one basic question: “Where on Earth did they get that idea?” It didn’t matter, really, if what occasioned the weary refrain was ...