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I'm Jonathan Kay.

You know all those brash and sassy young female book authors

who tell the world about how they became a feminist badass?

Well, Megan Dom isn't one of them.

In fact, she almost called her new book,

You are not a badass.

Because she was so tired of seeing feminism being interpreted as a series of aggressive

performative postures.

As Dom argues in her new book, The Problem with Everything, my journey through the new

culture wars, the most empowering kind of feminism is the kind that vests women with a sense of resilience and agency,

not just a weaponized ideology for expressing complaints and bringing down men.

But Dom, a veteran essayist and pundit

who's in her late 40s, also knows that every generation has a lot to learn from the ones that

come after. And her new book isn't simply one long lecture to younger

...