The Right’s New Grand Unified Theory: Blame Women for Everything

THE LATEST INTELLECTUAL BUZZ on the right is about a Compact magazine essay that boils down to ‘Women ruin everything.’ The piece by Helen Andrews, titled “The Great Feminization”—a follow-up to a tweet thread and a speech at the National Conservatism conference last month—is, you could say, the modern-day equivalent of sixteenth-century Scottish preacher John Knox’s celebrated polemic, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women.