On Margaret Fuller and Woman in the Twenty-First Century

Four years from now, in 2020, we will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the vote. A backward glance might have saved us the steep disappointment of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss. African-American men won the vote in 1870; we had our first black male President a hundred and thirty-eight years later. By that logic, we’ll have to wait until 2060 for a woman to shatter what Clinton has repeatedly called the “highest and hardest” glass ceiling.