By Naomi Wolf
It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful ignorance that characterize so much of the media coverage of the sexual-assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. To report that we are simply witnessing Swedish justice at work, one must be committed to doing no research—not even the bare minimum of picking up a phone. In fact, we are witnessing a bizarre aberration in the context of Sweden’s treatment of sex crimes—a case that exposes the grim reality of indifference, or worse, that victims there and elsewhere face.
Posted: September 1st, 2012 in Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Naomi Wolf
The horror has become almost routine. This time, the massacre site was a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where accused shooter James Holmes murdered and injured dozens of moviegoers. In 1999, the scene was nearby Columbine High School. By some estimates, there are more than 20 mass shootings per year in the United States. And always the same question: Why?
Posted: August 13th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Naomi Wolf
One of Iraq’s only a handful working filmmakers, Oday Rasheed—whose brilliant 2005 film “Underexposure” followed a group of characters in Baghdad after the United States-led invasion in 2003, and whose new film “Qarantina” is now premiering—is in Manhattan. The glamorous settings in which he is now showing “Qarantina”—a screening at the Museum of Modern Art, for example, and in the private homes of American directors and stars—could not be further removed from the violence-riddled context of his daily life.
Posted: February 27th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Naomi Wolf
As turmoil stalks America’s financial markets and protests fill its streets, Americans’ lifestyle choices are evolving in a telling way: once seen by the rest of the world as an exuberant teenager—the globe’s extrovert, exporter of rock ‘n’ roll and flashy Hollywood movies—Americans are now becoming decidedly withdrawn, or at least inward-looking. Trends in leisure activities reflect that change: frugality and making do are in; gaudy consumerism is out.
Posted: December 4th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Naomi Wolf
The top and the bottom of the list of countries in Newsweek’s recent cover story, “The 2011 Global Women’s Progress Report,” evoke images of two different worlds.
Posted: October 2nd, 2011 in Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Naomi Wolf
New York—It is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Some powerful men have long been sexually voracious; unlike today, though, they were far more discreet and generally used much better judgment in order to cover their tracks. Of course, the heightened technological [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
