SOURCE: Sommers, Christina Hoff, and Stephen Goode. “Philosopher Advocate for American Boys.” Insight on the News (12 March 2001): 36-9.

In the following interview, Sommers discusses The War against Boys and the status of boys in the American education system.

Philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers is an old-fashioned feminist who believes in voting rights for women and a level playing field for both genders, but parts company when it comes to radical feminism and its disparagement of men. Five years ago she took on the feminist establishment in her book, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women, which widely was pilloried by the establishment she eloquently attacked. “I know I became a feminist because I didn't like male chauvinism,” Sommers tells Insight. “But I do not appreciate female chauvinism, either.”

Last year Sommers brought out another deeply controversial book, The War against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young...