The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown has announced a three-day summit entitled “Women of the World” which “will showcase the stories of outstanding women leaders”. The summit will take place in New York next March. Attending the summit, Brown tells us, will be Queen Rania of Jordan, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Meryl Streep, Barbara […]
All eyes are on Sarah Palin’s left hand—you might even call it a vast left-wing conspiracy—after it doubled as a cheat sheet during a Q&A at the National Tea Party Convention. For those wondering, the words/talking points she had written on her palm were: “energy,” “tax” and “lift American spirits.” Palin did something I’ve always […]
Happy 2010, dear readers! May it be joyful and successful! We humans are impatient beings, so it is a natural that we seek crumbs about the future from East European fortune tellers in gloomily-colored headscarves, uptight Englishmen wearing purple ties and friend victims who know how to shuffle those Tarot cards. Here are some bold […]
Among the speakers at this year’s Oxford University’s Radical Forum was Deborah Cameron, a professor of linguistics at Worcester College whose research interests include language, gender, the media and the interactions between them. She is also the author of The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages? which succeeds […]