The Stanford Rape Hoax Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes. Lona Manning 3 Apr 2023 · 21 min read
Interrogating Jane In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women. Lona Manning 26 Apr 2021 · 12 min read
What Is #DisruptTexts? The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.” Lona Manning 9 Dec 2020 · 9 min read
Commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary each paid a high price for defying convention. They both entered into relationships out-of-wedlock at a time when doing so was enough to put a woman out of good society. Lona Manning 18 Nov 2020 · 10 min read
The Campaign to Destroy Equal Voice The conflict between management and the young staffers at Equal Voice is not only an ideological divide, but a generational one, and the younger cohort employs a particularly dramatic lexicon. Lona Manning 16 Aug 2019 · 14 min read
Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty. Lona Manning 6 Apr 2019 · 26 min read
