Michelle Goldberg Grapples With Feminism After Roe
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About this episode
Klein interviews his NYT Opinion colleague Michelle Goldberg about feminism after the Dobbs decision overturned Roe. They discuss how the end of federal abortion rights scrambled feminist politics — energizing some, exposing rifts between mainstream and radical feminists, and forcing a reckoning with decades of complacency. Goldberg reflects on her own evolution as a feminist writer, the gender dynamics of the anti-abortion movement, and why abortion rights proved more politically potent than many expected. The conversation also touches on motherhood, work, and the broader backlash against women's autonomy, ending on the question of what a feminism adequate to the post-Roe moment would demand.