Libby Emmons
Libby Emmons is the Editor-in-chief for The Post Millennial and Human Events. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She has been published in the New York Post, The Federalist and others. X: @libbyemmons
In the age of surveillance, don’t give up your autonomy for security
Is it worth it to be sure little Johnny is the one who swiped your drone-delivered packages off your front steps? Wise up, people.
Toronto schools to provide free menstrual products to students
Canada’s largest school board, the Toronto District School Board recently decided to provide free menstrual products in elementary and secondary schools.
Deep fakes are an assault on reality
Deep fakes are weird and they’re getting worse. From now on, what we make of reality is up to each of us alone, and we better get it right.
#MeToo is a crisis for contemporary womanhood
At its worst, #MeToo says: women can’t handle their own bodies, they can’t make their own choices, can’t handle liquor, don’t know their own minds.
We should cancel art criticism instead of Renoir
Writing in The New Yorker about a Renoir exhibit, art critic Peter Schjeldahl wants to make sure readers know he was not turned on by the nudes.
What’s so wrong about being straight?
If the gay rights movement taught us anything, it’s that love is love. We need to get down with that for straight people too.
Why does our culture want us to stop having babies?
If prospective moms and dads decline to be moms and dads, how will their ideas about liberty, freedom, and individual rights be passed on?
Pregnancy doesn’t care about your pronouns
Mothers have a history of teaming up, sending messages along that umbilical cord stretched out through the ages. Let’s never give that up.
Why does Teen Vogue want your daughters to have secret abortions?
Parents are not the enemy, abortion isn’t always the answer, and Teen Vogue will probably do less damage promoting socialism than giving bad advice to teens
Blogger mom thinks her teens’ counterculture is white supremacy
In an epic Twitter thread, a blogger mom ranted about the problem with what white, teen boys like on the internet.
IMDb joins the woke brigade, bans “deadnaming”
In a change of policy, IMDb will allow trans performers’ chosen names to stand, without referring to performers’ given names.
Taylor Swift was never really cancelled, but she likes to pretend she was
Taylor Swift was never really cancelled. Keeping your agent and your record deal and your fan base isn’t what cancellation looks like.
Stop apologizing for your privilege—it’s pathetic
Confessing privilege may be all the rage, and it may make rich white people feel better about living, but it doesn’t solve anything.
The inventor of the gender reveal party regrets her invention because it’s 2019
When parents learn about the gender of their babies, they are learning what sex organs the baby has. This is not entirely irrelevant information.
Mario Lopez apologizes for saying that parents shouldn’t force children to be trans
Lopez was not wrong. Accepting a toddler’s determination of their gender identity, a concept which is confusing even to adults.