A father’s love for his daughter is not the same as his love for his son, says Robert Wilder. I am sitting in an indoor arena on the red-bricked observation deck. In the arena, my former student Anya, a junior at Stanford, is walking on the soft brown dirt. Dressed in black, she is directing […]
Much to Robert Wilder’s dismay, his high school students still see feminism as a dirty word, but is he the right person to show them otherwise? Every year about this time, I teach Hamlet to juniors in high school, and eventually we get to the scene where Ophelia drowns. I don’t know if it’s because […]
Are men more likely to be harsh critics, and point out flaws in order to fix them? After having worked in restaurants and writing about them occasionally, I consider myself a fairly discerning diner. I don’t turn up my nose at an unfortunate choice in cutlery, but I have certain expectations for food and service, […]
