“Girl bosses are not wife material,” wrote Jackson Hinkle on X last year. In our often-ridiculous discourse on work-life balance, some conservatives have turned “girlboss” into a slur for smart, focused young women. They call out Kamala Harris and Meghan Markle as emblems of this undesirable breed of females. But obsessing over the toxic traits...
Within a span of one week last year, all of my close female friends got dumped, stood up, or rejected. “How could he?” one friend would ask, and we would all nod our heads in sympathy. Boys are dense at the best, malicious at the worst (or so it seemed). We hugged each other and...
Hillsdale College recognized alumni Kerry Cummings ’77, Michael Francisco ’04, Elizabeth Spalding ’88, and Kat Timpf ’10 for their outstanding personal and professional achievements in the 2024 Alumni Awards. The college officially presented the awards June 30 at the 73rd Annual Alumni Awards Banquet as, a part of the White & Blue Reunion Weekend in...
As Simon Peter said, it is good that we are here. I’m your Opinions editor, Caroline Kurt, and this is my column. I believe in writing about what you find most interesting, and so After Eden was born. Twice a month, this column will delve into all things related to work, gender, and family: issues...
Jameson Payne was just 12 years old when he took his first college class—a biochemistry course the summer before he entered seventh grade. “The average age in that class had to be 35 or 40,” Payne said. Many of his classmates were veterans of the military studying for a nursing degree. When Payne raised...