Elayne Allen

Political theory PhD student, @NotreDame

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

@SerenaSigillito Thanks Serena!!

[Anastasia Berg @a_n_a_berg]

Always a pleasure to receive a thoughtful and generous review from a perspective different than our own. @ElaynethePain for @thedispatch

[Serena Sigillito @SerenaSigillito]

Love this, @ElaynethePain: "The body—especially the female body—demands a response to one of life’s most challenging riddles: Is life worth perpetuating? The human capacity to ask&answer such questions is woven into human flesh, most plainly&unapologetically the maternal frame."

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

Really enjoyed reading and reviewing @a_n_a_berg and @rachelcwiseman's new book, What Are Children For?, in @thedispatch! And thanks to @LuisParrales_ for the fine editorial work: https://t.co/0jv1o5hFEt

[The Dispatch @thedispatch]

"Berg and Wiseman shepherd readers through many practical and ethical conundrums that would-be parents face in deliberating over having a child." | @ElaynethePain reviews Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman’s new book, "What Are Children For?":
https://t.co/da4vejR40M

[The Dispatch @thedispatch]

"The human capacity to ask and answer such questions is therefore woven into human flesh, most plainly and unapologetically in the maternal frame." | @ElaynethePain's review of @a_n_a_berg and @rachelcwiseman's new book "What Are Children For?":
https://t.co/da4vejR40M

[Russell Kirk Center @KirkCenter]

@cjlambert94 @JohnRWoodJr @ElaynethePain

Thanks to the three of you and Michael Lucchese for enlivening The Conservative Mind!

[Public Discourse @PublicDiscourse]

It’s all too easy to view reading a novel as a heroic feat of the will; to think great literature is something that must be violently wrestled with. @ElaynethePain https://t.co/FLmXcVnXHt

[Sam Apple @Sam_Apple1]

Excellent essay on the pleasures of the audiobook -- and some good recommendations...

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

Oops, draws, not draw's. I guess listening to books too often means I forget how to spell...

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

My last essay as @PublicDiscourse's managing editor ran today—covering the Bookshelf column for the inimitable @MatthewJFranck: https://t.co/QBvzAm5j1J

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

My essay draw's its inspiration from @Sam_Apple1's recent piece in The Atlantic, which was really marvelous. Can't recommend it enough. https://t.co/aWPn58vJ3s

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

@MatthewJFranck @PublicDiscourse hopefully not!!

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

I'm sad to say bye, but PD an incredible team of editors (RJ Snell, @alex_e_davis, @SerenaSigillito, @RyanTAnd, @DevGoldman, @MatthewJFranck, @PTBwrites, @DefensorPacis73, Nathaniel Peters, Mark Regnerus) who ensure the journal thrives. Maybe they'll let me keep writing for PD!

[Matt Franck @MatthewJFranck]

I have long been ambivalent about audiobooks, but @ElaynethePain makes a good case for them here, in her guest appearance as our @PublicDiscourse Bookshelf columnist. https://t.co/kP0sAfOc2q

[Thomas S. Kidd @ThomasSKidd]

Listening to a novel, accepting its rhythms and flow of detail on the book’s own terms, is a gentle reminder that life’s most glorious things demand quiet, silent admiration, and loving acceptance. @ElaynethePain @PublicDiscourse https://t.co/J8olNnrPaG

[Public Discourse @PublicDiscourse]

The movie’s most profound insight is its distillation of pop feminism: a praise of women so unceasing that we no longer feel comfortable being normal human beings with blemishes, weakness, and fertility. @ElaynethePain https://t.co/ZUhjQfB2fD

[Public Discourse @PublicDiscourse]

Despite the movie’s flood of female power, pink, and prettiness, Barbie suggests that idolized womanhood invites women to be glittery counterfeits of themselves. @ElaynethePain https://t.co/ZUhjQfB2fD

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

A little late to the party, but I couldn't resist reviewing Barbie for @PublicDiscourse: https://t.co/z6xtZNg4hr

[Elayne Allen @ElaynethePain]

@alex_e_davis @WitherspoonInst @PublicDiscourse Congrats Alex! You will do great work for PD.