I recently wrote for Law and Liberty as part of a forum about Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, which reaches its 75th anniversary this year. My essay argued that this seminal work, which has had such a foundational and negative impact on modern feminism, is both intellectually weak and morally repugnant. But, in my criticism of Beauvoir and my establishment of myself to her “right” in reference to motherhood in particular (Beauvoir is repulsed by maternity, full stop) I... Read more