What makes Katha Pollitt’s new book Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories (Random House) compulsively readable is the frankness with which Pollitt brings her politics to bear on the everyday. This should not come as a surprise. As a columnist at The Nation for the past 13 years, she has used her own life as a jumping off point… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pages“Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.”
Everyone has a right to their pov, no matter how narrow and shallow. (One might imagine the flag stands for a multitude of things to a multitude of people. . .)
“I’m not the only older woman who can’t legally drive “
Huh, does she live in Saudi? Or is she merely incompetent?
“anyone with eyes in her head could see that mothers were still doing most of the work.”
Or not? Perhaps she needs to have her (rather older) eyes examined (too many gin and limes, which she happily takes from a capitalist society?)?
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