Caitlin Flanagan began her magazine-writing career, in 2001, with a series of extended book reviews about the conflicts at the very heart of modern life—specifically, modern domestic life as it is lived by professional-class women. Flanagan has quickly established herself as a highly entertaining social critic unafraid to take on self-indulgence and political correctness, and her reviews provide penetrating and witheringly funny observations about the sexes and their discontents.
Flanagan's Atlantic articles have been named as finalists for the National Magazine Award five times, and her essay "Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor," which ran in September 2001, was included in the 2002 compilation of Best American Magazine Writing. Her work has also been included in Best American Essays 2003 and Best American Magazine Writing 2003. She is the author of the book To Hell with All That—an exploration, based on her Atlantic articles, of the lives of modern women.
Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Flanagan earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Virginia. She now lives in California, where she spends her time writing and raising twins.
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Michael Hickey / Getty Mutually Nonconsensual Sex
A Title IX case at the University of Cincinnati—rife with legal, anatomical, and emotional improbabilities—illustrates the potential excesses of policing sex on campus.
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Mary Altaffer / AP The First Porn President
Donald Trump and the path from Playboy to Stormy Daniels
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Ben Kirchner The Impossible Duality of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Amazon show’s star may be the first woman who really does have it all.
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The Problem With #MeToo’s Agenda
Caitlin Flanagan argues that the #MeToo movement is becoming big enough to be rendered meaningless.
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WG600* The Comic-Strip Heroine I'll Never Forget
Modesty Blaise was something like Wonder Woman meets James Bond—but she was so much more, too.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Conversation #MeToo Needs to Have
Female rage is the movement’s essential fuel; left unchecked, it is the potent force that will destroy it.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Babe Turns a Movement Into a Racket
The website made a name for itself by going after Aziz Ansari, and now it’s hurting the momentum of #MeToo.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Humiliation of Aziz Ansari
Allegations against the comedian are proof that women are angry, temporarily powerful—and very, very dangerous.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters To Hell With the Witch-Hunt Debate
The post-Weinstein moment isn’t a war on sex. It’s a long-overdue revolution.
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Peter Turnley / Getty / Zak Bickel / ... What Hillary Knew
Hillary Clinton once tweeted that “every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” What about Juanita Broaddrick?
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Ethan Miller / Getty / Zak Bickel / ... Bill Clinton: A Reckoning
Feminists saved the 42nd president of the United States in the 1990s. They were on the wrong side of history; is it finally time to make things right?
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Rami Niemi The Cutthroat World of Capitalist Reality TV
Shark Tank, The Toy Box, and Funderdome offer a mesmerizingly shallow view of American entrepreneurship.
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Greg Kahn Death at a Penn State Fraternity
Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.
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Sebastien Micke / 'Paris Match' / Getty The Queen of Oversharing
The personal essay may be over—but Joyce Maynard isn’t.
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Kristian Hammerstad | 克里斯蒂安·哈莫斯塔德 深夜喜剧节目如何促进了特朗普的崛起
主持人的冷嘲热讽疏远了保守派，让自由派洋洋自得
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Kristian Hammerstad How Late-Night Comedy Fueled the Rise of Trump
Sneering hosts have alienated conservatives and made liberals smug.
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Michael Marsicano Can Megyn Kelly Escape Her Past?
Fox News’s former star has downplayed her full role in an ugly election.
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Kristian Hammerstad How Helicopter Parenting Can Cause Binge Drinking
The way some white professionals raise their children is exacerbating an alcohol problem on U.S. college campuses.
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Brian Stauffer The Dark Hallways of Horace Mann
What allowed sexual abuse to go unchecked at the prestigious private school in the 1970s?
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Kristian Hammerstad / The Atlantic That’s Not Funny!
Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.
