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“... less abstract view of human individuals? In the last and most interesting chapter of her book Beth Elshtain suggests that it is. Most of Public Man, Private Woman is a reading of the ways in which public and private have been charted in European thought, including an extended discussion of the curious alliance between ‘patriarchal’ social relations and ...”

“... in the contemporary USA exploiting their professional credibility to advance a partisan case. Jean BethkeElshtain and Michael Walzer, two senior figures in the country’s philosophical establishment (she at the University of Chicago Divinity School, he at the Princeton Institute), both wrote portentous essays ...”

“... the sorts of torture actually used by the United States. The closest we get is an essay by Jean BethkeElshtain, in which she asks: Is a shouted insult a form of torture? A slap in the face? Sleep deprivation? A beating to within an inch of one’s life? Electric prods on the male genitals, inside a woman’s ...”