Closing the Gender Gap
Bersnak, Bracy
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Closing the Gender Gap" Indeed, EU economic interventionism has gone to both comic and tragic extremes. On the one hand, its agricultural subsidies (which are twice as large as those on this side...
...How the Catholics Saved Civilization THOMAS E. WOODS, JR...
...The feminists got Congress to unconstitutionally extend the deadline to pass ERA until 1982, but desperation made them use increasingly extreme tactics that backfired...
...As Schnabel and Rocca note, its formidable culture, generosity toward the developing world, and appealing way of life are some of Europe's greatest assets in winning hearts and minds beyond its borders...
...One of the strongest pressures to spark such productivity by adopting a more free market orientation in the EU comes from new Central and Eastern European member states...
...McCloskey lows up on his recent bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ameri can History (2004), also available from Regnery...
...ERA was dead, and the activists opposed to it were going strong...
...While Schlafly's book made her a heroine to conservatives, reports Critchlow, it also aroused anger from liberal Republicans, who, with the connivance of the RNC, stole the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women from her in 1967...
...Let us hope that more historians emulate Critchlow, and that more women emerge to emulate Schlafly...
...A profes sional historian with degrees from Harvard and Columbia, he systematically explains to a reading public that has largely lost its historical memory "How the Catholic How the Catholic Church Built Church Built Western Western Civilization Civilization" (the title by Thomas E. Woods, Jr...
...Like conservative intellectuals, grassroots conservatives were willing to look beyond their theological differences because of their shared commitment to fighting Communism...
...Most historians trace the shifting of the cultural divide in America among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews to the '60s revolution from which a new division between secularists and religious believers sprang...
...In 1973, Roe v. Wade gave her claim added urgency and credibility...
...BOOKS IN REVIEW Indeed, EU economic interventionism has gone to both comic and tragic extremes...
...America's goal, according to the former ambassador and much of the current U.S...
...They gave the states seven years to ratify it...
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...BOOKS IN REVIEW nents of the movement...
...To a degree, he traces the footsteps of best-selling author Thomas Cahill How the Irish Saved Civil ization (Doubleday, 1995, see review on my website...
...As the Bush administration makes overtures aimed at repairing the transatlantic relationship, Schnabel and Rocca argue quite convincingly that America still has more in common with the Old World than many of us think...
...public diplomacy has been floundering...
...FRUIT HUMOR ASIDE, the EU has made much headway in spreading its regulations and standards—and ultimately its tastes—around the world...
...HAS WRITTEN a challenging and indeed almost defiant book...
...Through soft power, as scholars of international politics refer to nonmilitary influence, the EU has managed to extend the reach of its political culture— just at a time when U.S...
...The intellectuals and activists of the right viewed the Cold War as a titanic struggle between good and evil through which all political events were interpreted...
...His website is FrmcCloskey.com...
...They remained active in the GOP and had found a potent issue in the left's undemocratic use of the Supreme Court to engineer social change...
...In the campaign, Schlafly displayed her trademark talent for combining principled idealism with practical political activity...
...THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT had been endorsed in the Republican and Democratic party platforms since the 1940s...
...She was as sophisticated and accomplished as they were, Bracy Bersnak is a doctoral student in Political Theory at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C...
...Her book A Choice, Not an Echo made Schlafly a figure of national prominence by selling 3.5 million copies and by helping Goldwater secure the GOP nomination from Establishment "kingmakers...
...On the comic side, Schnabel and Rocca detail one of the EU's many infamous product standards: a seven-page European Commission document regulating banana quality It stipulates that the fruit must be at least 14 centimeters in length "along the convex face, from the blossom end to the point where the peduncle joins the crown," and at least 27 millimeters thick "between the lateral faces and the middle, [measured] perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis...
...By 1982, the political landscape had changed dramatically...
...In 1972, both houses of Congress passed it, rejecting amendments that would have formally recognized traditional protections women have received from the law...
...As President Bush said in Brussels earlier this year, "America supports a strong Europe, because we need a strong partner in the hard work of advanc ing freedom and peace in the world...
...By writing, speaking, and organizing seminars, she brought ideas to the activists...
...Loosely united at first, conservative intellectuals and activists were tightly bound together by the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater...
...She organized women at the grassroots to "STOP ERA" and succeeded because the feminists lacked a comparable organization and relied on an expensive media campaign...
...of his new book from (REGNERY PUBLISHING, 256 PAGES, $29.95) Regnery...
...With the dramatic transformation of China and India into potential superpowers in their own right, as well as the ongoing threat to the entire world of Islamist radicalism, the Atlantic alliance is likely to remain an indispensable relationship for some time to come...
...Donald Critchlow's political biography of Phyllis Schlafly is a useful corrective to most other histories of grassroots conservatism and closes the gap between historiography on feminists and their numerous opponents from their own sex...
...At the same time, the European Union must grow more productive to compensate for looming demographic difficulties (the projected EU fertility rate for 2005 was 1.48 children per woman, well below replacement) as well as Western Europe's 64 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2005 addiction to social spending...
...ERA sounded innocuous, stating simply that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex...
...But by then Schlafly had built an army of conservative women activists who would march with her in the battle for which she became most famous...
...McCloskey is a priest of Opus Dei and research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute based in Washington, D.C...
...But even with America's clear affinity with the free market values of the former Eastern Bloc, the authors argue, the US...
...As former Estonian President Mart Laar said in 2003, "In the new member states, even the most left-wing governments are significantly more freemarket oriented than the most right-wing govern ments among the current members...
...Within a year, 30 states had done so, leaving supporters eight more state legislatures to convince...
...Friedan and other feminists were unnerved by Schlafly...
...growled Betty Friedan at Phyllis Schlafly during a public debate over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) at Illinois State University in 1973...
...But Critchlow discovered that this realignment began much earlier in the grassroots anti-Communist movement...
...is unlikely to pursue a policy of "divide and conquer" against an economically robust EU that is beginning to take on more and more responsibility for its own defense...
...The relief agency Oxfam, for example, said last April that the EU's On the comic side, Schnabel and Rocca detail one of the EU's many infamous product standards: a seven-page European Commission document regulating banana quality sugar policy had cost Mozambique more than onethird of what that struggling African country has received in EU development aid...
...foreign policy leadership, should be to help manage the emergence of the EU as a global power in a way that it remains committed to the Atlantic alliance and gradually more comfortable with robust free market principles...
...On the one hand, its agricultural subsidies (which are twice as large as those on this side of the Atlantic) and subsequent dumping of farm products on developing countries has on many occasions undermined the EU's otherwise generous aid to such nations...
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...Schlafly argued that once ERA was the law of the land, feminists would use federal courts to implement their agenda, which included abortion on 66 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2005 demand, women in combat, and homosexual marriage...
...In this new volume, Woods fol-Reviewed by Rev...
Vol. 38 • October 2005 • No. 8
