Deep vs. Scant Knowing

The Supreme Court, for the most part, follows established decisions. But there are times when a precedent is "demonstrably erroneous."

He for She

In the last three years, I've observed a promising movement. Powerful old men are speaking out in support of women as equals. Just when I thought it would never happen, like passing the 19th Amendment, the light of dawn for equal rights is shining hopeful.

The Sisters Who Stomped China

Julia, granddaughter of Julius Caesar, and the infamous Herodias are two women from the chronicles of first-century European history. At the same time on the other side of the world (Asia) womankind enjoyed freedom forbidden women in later centuries, and some still frown upon to this day. Reading of women's lives in growing empires around the world familiar patterns repeat. Men go to war, establish empires, then plot and plan on how to control women's sexuality.

Granddaughter of Julius Caesar

Historians shape our view of the past in how they tell it. Most of premodern human history is told through the male lens. If they wrote about women at all, it was limited to women with exceptional talents, powerful women, or those who exercised extreme malice and evil. Likely, these male historians didn't wear out their quill pen elaborating on the women's point of view or their feelings. So the best we can do is to infer women's emotional state from their reactions to their circumstances.