The Handmaid and the Feminist

Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination raises difficult questions of faith, justice, and gender

Cathy Young
Arc Digital
Published in
11 min readOct 14, 2020

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Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett holds up a blank notepad in Senate confirmation hearings, October 13, 2020. (Tom Williams-Pool/Getty)

As the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation for the Supreme Court got underway yesterday, writer Lauren Hough tweeted to her 55K followers:

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Cathy Young
Arc Digital

Russian-Jewish-American writer. Associate editor, Arc Digital; contributor, Reason, Newsday, The Forward etc. https://www.patreon.com/CathyYoung