Kay Hymowitz

New York

Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute

William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal. 5 Books, including: Marriage and Caste in America

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Articles

Travesty, or Troll?

Aug 5, 2024 | city-journal.org | Kay Hymowitz

Given the relentless pace of political news these days, you may have already forgotten the furor over Donald Trump’s comments at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago last week. So here’s a quick reminder.
The New Girl Disorder

Jul 21, 2024 | city-journal.org | Joseph Bernstein |Kay Hymowitz

In late May, a strange post appeared on the X account of Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Dear University Students in the United States of America,” it read, “you are standing on the right side of history.
Gen Z’s Gender Stalemate

May 16, 2024 | city-journal.org | Kay Hymowitz

Sex and politics are clickbait material, so it’s little surprise that The Economist’s early March article “Why Young Men and Women Are Drifting Apart” went viral. In this case, the attention was warranted. The article adds to our understanding of the long-standing gender gap in politics to include the often-puzzling Generation Z, spotlighting trends with implications reaching far beyond any particular election. The upshot of the article is that young adult women and men are politically divided.
The Pyrrhic Victory of “Gender Identity”

Apr 24, 2024 | city-journal.org | Kay Hymowitz

Late last week, the Biden administration released its highly anticipated updated rules for the 1972 Title IX amendments to the Civil Rights Act, which protects people from sex-based discrimination in education. Arguably the most consequential and, judging from social media, most controversial of the updated rules was that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on “gender identity.” On a naïve level, it sounds like a good thing: discrimination is bad, after all. But not in this case.
When Every Day is a Mental Health Day

Feb 28, 2024 | city-journal.org | Kay Hymowitz

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, by Abigail Shrier (Sentinel, 320 pp., $30)Abigail Shrier’s first book, 2020’s Irreversible Damage, launched the mother of all cancel campaigns.
The Polyamorist Next Door

Feb 1, 2024 | manhattan.institute | Kay Hymowitz

I suppose, given Americans’ fondness for postmodern taboo-breaking, it was inevitable that polyamory would go mainstream. Recently, it’s been the subject of lifestyle articles in the , Wall Street Journal, Time, The New Yorker, and More, a buzzy memoir by Park Slope wife and mother, Molly Roden Winter.
The Polyamorist Next Door

Feb 1, 2024 | ifstudies.org | Kay Hymowitz

I suppose, given Americans’ fondness for postmodern taboo-breaking, it was inevitable that polyamory would go mainstream. Recently, it’s been the subject of lifestyle articles in the , Wall Street Journal, Time, The New Yorker, and More, a buzzy memoir by Park Slope wife and mother, Molly Roden Winter.
What’s the Matter with Girls?

Dec 5, 2023 | manhattan.institute | Kay Hymowitz

Unless you’ve been in a state of cryonic suspension, you’ve no doubt heard that America’s adolescent girls are depressed. The internet is chock-a-block with articles with titles like “Teen Girls Are Facing a Mental Health Epidemic,” “Teen Girls Report Record Levels of Sadness,” “American Teen Girls are Not OK,” each one stocked with disquieting stories of self-cutting, Tik Tok-induced Tourette’s syndrome, gender dysphoria, anorexia, and suicidal plans.
What's the Matter With Girls?

Dec 5, 2023 | ifstudies.org | Kay Hymowitz

Unless you’ve been in a state of cryonic suspension, you’ve no doubt heard that America’s adolescent girls are depressed. The internet is chock-a-block with articles with titles like “Teen Girls Are Facing a Mental Health Epidemic,” “Teen Girls Report Record Levels of Sadness,” “American Teen Girls are Not OK,” each one stocked with disquieting stories of self-cutting, Tik Tok-induced Tourette’s syndrome, gender dysphoria, anorexia, and suicidal plans.
Geniuses Behaving Badly

Nov 24, 2023 | city-journal.org | Kay Hymowitz

Judging from the size and makeup of the crowds in Florence I saw during a visit in September, Americans are mad for Renaissance art. Try to get a close look at Giotto’s Ognissanti Madonna at the Uffizi, and you’ll see only the heads of college juniors holding their phones high to get a long-distance shot of just a slice of the fourteenth-century painting that gave the first hint of the genius about to bloom throughout this part of northern Italy.