Thursday, March 24, 2005

For the choice makes you worse off files - Commentary Magazine, Ruth R. Wisse

Some folks want their old telephone monopoly back. Choosing carriers and long distance plans yada yada yada is such a hassle. Give me my old AT&T.

Ruth R. Wisse is on the trail of another such case:

As I said in that quote that caught your fancy, whether seen from the angle of career or motherhood, highly educated women face problems attributable to the very freedoms that gave them their options. Greater choices are bound to create greater unease, and sharper regrets over roads not taken. What feminism provides is a framework of grievance for the unease, and a politics to give it expression.
Or maybe we should call it a roadmap to grievance. Those looking for someone to blame for their dilemma have found in Larry Summers an easy target. But doesn't the blame lie with a higher authority?

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