Ehrenreich has long been a very witty commentator and speaker. She should stick to these areas. Her theoretical interventions have been of consistently low quality. Her early work on women and medicine over romanticizes the premedical era. All our great artists died in childbirth and midwifery was an uncritically great institution are mutually exclusive propositions. Her work with John Ehrenreich on the Professional Managerial Class was essentially untheorized and contained silly political conclusions e.g. students were oppressed members of the PMC . "The Hearts of Men" contended that the erosion of the patriarchal family had more to do with the Playboy philosophy than it had to do with capitalism or feminism. If the recent summaries of her position on war are accurate, this appears to be if anything worse, though based on past performance only a patronizingly uncritical approach to her work would lead anyone to be surprised. I don't think any of this says anything much about DSA one way or the other. Terry McDonough
