Celebrity Deaths of 2026: ESPN’s Barry Melrose, Gloria Steinem and More Stars We’ve Lost This Year

Celebrity Deaths of 2026: ESPN’s Barry Melrose, Gloria Steinem and More Stars We’ve Lost This Year

Hollywood lost many stars in 2026, including Hayden Panettiere, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Barry Melrose, Shelley Fabares and more

Gloria Steinem’s life of substance and consequence

Gloria Steinem was an icon, a feminist, a woman of substance and consequence. A rare person who made a difference her entire life ...

Pondering what Gloria Steinem now knows

It is understandable that so many attributed the words to Steinem, who died Sept. 2 at age 92; not only did she gleefully repeat them, her own rhetoric echoed or expanded on the sentiments as she became the face of second wave feminism for six decades.

Gloria Steinem’s Rolling Feminist Revolution

Gloria Steinem, a popularizer of feminist dogmas, died last week at the age of 92. She promoted many of the false doctrines of women’s liberation beginning in the 1960s through her persona, writings, publications, and speeches. As she passes from the scene, few of the original so-called second-wave feminists remain. Yet the overwhelming victories the movement has achieved in the decades since have largely obscured the radicalism at its center. A…

Gloria Steinem, prominent American feminist, 1934-2026

The passing of Gloria Steinem, the most celebrated of the US “second wave” feminists of the 1970s, provides an opportunity to consider both her life and work. Some on the left, such as Jenny Brown writing in Jacobin, have condemned Steinem as a “neoliberal” who used and misused the women's movement, disdaining the movement's radical wing, to advance her own career as self-proclaimed leader. IVP620 - September 2026 / United States (USA), Women

Gloria Steinem’s Legacy Was Largely Anti-Woman

Gloria Steinem shaped the way America thought about women and sometimes how women thought about themselves. After her death, it is worth considering whether her vision delivered the liberty for women that she promised. She was an icon to many women, remarkable in many ways for coolly championing women’s rights. I appreciate her work to fight sexual harassment and discrimination against women in the workplace and for equal pay. Steinem and Concer…