by Phyllis Chesler Edith Wharton Many (white, male) writers throughout history have suffered from both poverty and plagiarism. If they were not born rich, they all had day-jobs. Many were never paid for their published writing. Some had to pay to be published. Writers—even the Greats—also suffered ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler  Pauline is sitting alone, I am sitting with Merle Hoffman. My generation is going, going, gone. Pauline must be the 150th feminist friend and colleague who is no longer here on earth. She was a great trouble-maker as well as a first-rate academic sociologist, researcher, ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Our romance is over, the dream has died. I just saw the new Bond movie. To me, it was an unending series of special effects and video game dramas, full of “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”  No one was believable and thus, nothing made much sense. I could not empathize with ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I am, quite simply, blown away by Dara Horn’s impeccable and original research, relentless courage, and sheer eloquence as contained in her latest book, People Love Dead Jews: Reports From A Haunted Present. I think that Horn is rather like Ruth Wisse, only younger. And, ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler We now know that the stubborn, almost incomprehensible way in which President Biden pulled out of Afghanistan was against military advice; that it led to the deaths of 13 American soldiers and those of countless Afghan civilians. It caused traumatic pandemonium in the streets ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Back in the day, I could only work with battered women for a short while, after which I burned out. I continued to raise money and consciousness for the shelters and for the shelter movement but I was not saintly enough to keep working with a battered woman who insisted upon ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler THE WORD FEMICIDE IS NOT YET RECOGNIZED by spellcheck. Every time I use it, I am met with an angry red underline. This presents something of a disincentive for its use. We might say that the resistance to this concept begins in Silicon Valley. However, the word does appear ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Has any other writer experienced this? In December of 2020, Charlotte Allen reviewed my book Requiem For a Female Serial Killer in Quillette. It was an unusually long review—5,000 words—in which she simply repeated as many details gleaned from my book as possible. However, ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Had she lived, she would have been 110 years old today. Where did she go? Where is she now? She—the only girl in her family who was actually born in America, the caretaker for her aging, ailing parents, the incredibly dutiful daughter, the fiercely religious woman who could ...Read More...

An arrangement of white roses, white hydrangeas, and white lilies adorn our table. If only our characters were as pure, as angelic, as these flowers….let us pray to be rid of our pride, arrogance, vanity, and selfishness so that we may be granted yet another year. ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I remained rooted to my chair, transfixed, as I watched the twin towers come down—and when I finally stepped out into my front yard, I said to my neighbor: “Now, we are all Israelis.” It was an idea that I repeated many times in 2002 and again in 2003 in “The New Anti-Semitism” ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler co-authored by: Mandy Sanghera This post is part of an ongoing series of reports on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and its impact on women by feminist author Phyllis Chesler. Donate to the Afghan Feminist Refugee Fund It is horrendous enough that Afghan allies (feminists, ...Read More...

Afghans who studied in the West and returned home tried hard to modernize their country. by Phyllis Chesler What more is there to say about America in Afghanistan or about Afghanistan itself? For more than a month, the print media, the air waves, and the internet have been filled with scenes ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Mural by Afghan artist Shamsia Hassani What feminists in the West easily take for granted—Afghan feminists have to die for. If they don’t want to wear a burqa, marry their first cousin, be battered for the rest of their lives; if they want a higher education, do not want to ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I know: Strategy is everything. Without weighing all the consequences, without planning a long range game, we end up in Kabul as it is today, on 8/26/21. And yet: ISIS-K is also fighting with the Taliban. I say: Get ‘em both. This cannot stand. They have just killed the bravest ...Read More...