Alice B. Lloyd
Alice Lloyd is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. She covers culture and policy, with particular interest in gender issues and education. Miss Lloyd holds a Bachelor of Arts in religion and art history from Dartmouth College. Prior to joining the staff of The Weekly Standard, she worked as an English teacher in her New England hometown.
Stories by Alice B. Lloyd
The Catastrophic Success of #MeToo
Understanding the feminist movement that's remaking America.
8:12 AM, Mar 06, 2018
For anyone counting #MeToo casualties with a wary eye, one of 2018’s first will have stood out. On January 13, in a lengthy exposé published on a website for college-age women, a 23-year-old photographer charged comic Aziz Ansari with the crime of being a bad date. The pseudonymous “Grace” described yielding to his awkward sexual advances and, even though she felt uncomfortable, declining to protest or get up and leave. While women may rightly see a semblance of injustice in his arrogance and he Read more
A Thoroughly Intersectional Oscars
Two words: inclusion riders.
12:59 AM, Mar 05, 2018
The Oscars couldn’t stray far from politically tense themes; in fact, the ceremony strained to fit in almost all of them. The first overt reference to actual policy came early. “Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood and dreams are the foundation of America,” said actress Lupita Nyong'o, announcing best production design (which went to The Shape of Water ) alongside actor Kumail Nanjiani. "For all the Dreamers out there," they said. "We stand by you." But the show’s first feminist thrill—an Read more
Oscars 2018: Weird, Woke, and a Win for Sam Rockwell
Plus, a delightful appearance by the wonderful Rita Moreno.
9:56 PM, Mar 04, 2018
The 2018 Oscars were always going to be weird, but in a mostly predictable way. In the #MeToo era, pre-show red carpet commentators avoided any hint of Joan Rivers-esque critique of women’s fashion choices or bodies. Everyone was “Stunning!” or “Iconic!”Ryan Seacrest, who was recently accused of sexual harassment by a former stylist , was bound to have some awkward interviews. (Some, for instance, took actress Taraji Henson’s response to Seacrest—“The universe has a way of taking care of th Read more
What We Can Learn from the New Manafort Indictments
Trump's former campaign manager has been arraigned for money laundering. How he hid money and enjoyed a lavish, tax-free lifestyle.
4:50 AM, Mar 01, 2018
Last week’s latest indictments by special counsel Robert Mueller added dozens of new counts to the charges already leveled against former Trump campaign manager, lobbyist Paul Manafort and his disloyal deputy Rick Gates, who pleaded guilty late last week. Manafort, arraigned Wednesday morning, maintains his innocence in the face of these new charges , which cover close to $30 million he made consulting in Ukraine and allegedly laundered with Gates’s help. The new charges, filed last wee Read more
Mona Charen: The Trump Era Is Like 'Living in a World of Funhouse Mirrors'
The conservative writer talks to THE WEEKLY STANDARD about what it was like to shake up CPAC.
4:02 PM, Feb 28, 2018
Mona Charen shook this year’s Trumpified CPAC by the shoulders. She’s a stalwart conservative thinker, a writer who got her start right out of college at National Review , who wrote speeches for Nancy Reagan and hundreds of newspaper columns and three books—the latest of which, Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense ,is out this June. Somehow, unlike some other conservatives, she stayed off the Trump train. And at CPAC, where per a straw poll o Read more
Janus v. AFSCME: What Will Become of Public-Sector Unions?
A similar case ended in a tie in 2015, after Justice Scalia's death. His replacement, Neil Gorsuch, was silent throughout oral arguments.
6:35 PM, Feb 26, 2018
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday morning in a case set to undo a seminal 40-year-old precedent that required all public sector employees to pay their union a “fair share fee” whether or not they’d elected to join . Janus v. AFSCME is an effective redo of the 2015 case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association , which ended in a 4-4 tie following Justice Scalia’s death—another opportunity to overturn 1977’s Abood v. Detroit Teachers Association . The case for the Read more
Going Rogue at CPAC: Mona Charen Slams Sexist Hypocrisy and Racism at CPAC; Calls invitation of Le Pen a 'Disgrace'
Conservative writer calls Marion Le Pen "a disgrace," Republicans anti-woman for Moore support.
3:55 PM, Feb 24, 2018
One stalwart Trump critic dared to take the stage at this year’s CPAC. “If we want an audience with young people, we have to separate ourselves from the men on our side who’ve behaved atrociously toward women,” said conservative writer Mona Charen—a think tank fellow, and TWS contributor—during a panel discussion of conservative women’s feminist crisis. “I'm disappointed in the people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in our party who are sitt Read more
Governor Indicted in Wake of Affair Has Long History of Giving Ethics and Morality Speeches
Eric Greitens' mistress alleges he blackmailed her with explicit photographs and has been indicted for invasion of privacy.
3:41 PM, Feb 23, 2018
The Missouri governor indicted Thursday on charges stemming from alleged sexual misconduct and blackmail has a history of extolling his ethical leadership. Eric Greitens, a Republican elected in 2016, admitted to an extramarital affair after investigation by St. Louis’s KMOV turned up audio recordings of the woman attesting to the affair and alleging Greitens had blackmailed her with explicit photographs. In a recent statement following his indictment for felony privacy invasion , Greiten Read more
Public Sector Unions Set to Face SCOTUS Scrutiny
The court will consider whether non-members must pay 'fair share' union fees in Janus v. AFSCME on Monday.
1:28 PM, Feb 23, 2018
"If unions are so good and doing such a great job, why do they have to force people to pay them?" That’s the question Mark Janus, an Illinois child services specialist, posed to assembled reporters on Friday. It’s the Supreme Court who will give him an answer. His case will be heard on Monday. Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is a second chance for the court to overturn a 1971 decision, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education , that allowed public Read more
Rose McGowan Sees Cults Everywhere
And so should we.
11:45 AM, Feb 22, 2018
In Brave , a book she was writing even before Harvey Weinstein’s reckoning kicked off last fall, actress and activist Rose McGowan tells her life’s story as a series of brain-washings: “Here’s the thing about cults,” she begins, “I see them everywhere.” She was born into a literal cult, the Children of God, known for child abuse at the hands of charismatic cult leaders. After stretches of homelessness, legal emancipation from her escaped cult-member parents, years’ dependence on a lowlife boy Read more
Trumpkins Outraged Over #TwitterLockout
Though it was brief, conspiracy theories persist.
2:00 PM, Feb 21, 2018
Trump-supporting Twitter users the world over logged on Wednesday morning to find their follower counts diminished. Appearances suggest the targets of this so-called Twitter "purge" were suspected bot accounts, and unverified users whose tweeting patterns reflect those of Russian bots: Locked out users were required to prove their humanity by entering a phone number. In a statement, Twitter called it a housecleaning, unmotivated by political bias. “Twitter's tools are apolitical,” according to Read more
What Was the Point of the 5Pointz Millions?
Graffiti artists win $6.7 million in damages against property owner—but at what cost?
2:30 PM, Feb 15, 2018
An impermanent high-art graffiti gallery in Queens was, for the five years since its whitewashing by a real estate developer, considered another casualty of cold-hearted capitalism. Its absence was a monument to the unwinnable war against the Man. Now the building owner who erased it has to pay $6.7 million in damages—for 45 pieces of what, until not too long ago, wouldn’t have been considered fine art at all. A Brooklyn jury decided back in November that 5Pointz’s destruction violated the Vis Read more
From Goldman Sachs Wine Thief to Hometown Hero
Goldman president's personal assistant awaits federal arraignment for stealing $1.2 million worth of wine. Back in Ohio, he's 'the small town boy who snookered the big city slicker.'
2:25 PM, Feb 09, 2018
Nick Meyer, 40, became briefly famous a few weeks ago for allegedly stealing more than $1 million of wine from his banker boss. As Goldman Sachs president David Solomon’s personal assistant from 2008 until 2016, Meyer’s job involved such chores as the transport of hundreds of bottles of extremely expensive wine between New York and the Hamptons. It also presented him tempting opportunities, like the $1.2-million theft of said wine , which finally caught up with him. FBI agents were waiting for Read more
The Martyrdom of Rose McGowan
Why, in the age of rabid online outrage, irascible Rose McGowan wasn't long for progressives' love-light.
5:00 AM, Feb 06, 2018
For Rose McGowan, it was only a matter of time. She’s an ice-cold operator who’ll verbally shiv with military precision anyone who crosses her. She’d have to be, to survive the hellhole of Hollywood hypocrisy with her sanity mostly intact. It was only a matter of time, then, before she’d turn on the activist left that claimed her as its heroine after she helped tear down Harvey Weinstein—or, it was only a matter of time before they’d turn on her. Last week, in due course, Rose and the activist l Read more
Looking for the Real 'Nicolas De-Meyer,' Mysterious Goldman Sachs Wine Thief
Goldman president's personal assistant stole $1.2 million worth of his boss's wine, then embarked on a world tour while the FBI tracked him. But who was he before?
7:39 AM, Jan 24, 2018
A man calling himself Nicolas De-Meyer was arrested in Los Angeles last Tuesday. His crime: allegedly stealing $1.2 million worth of wine from his boss, David Solomon, president of Goldman Sachs. According to the 40-year-old personal assistant’s indictment, he not only stole Solomon’s rare vintage wines but sold them to an out-of-state dealer and then traveled the world. He’s now in custody in Los Angeles, a DOJ spokesman told me this week. He’s been deemed a flight risk and now awaits transpo Read more
Katie Roiphe, Moira Donegan, and What We Can Learn From Twitter Mob Mentality
For one, writers attacking writers is not a good look.
11:02 AM, Jan 11, 2018
The “Shitty Media Men” list that came into a short-lived existence during the Harvey Weinstein awakening enjoyed a second life of sorts Tuesday and Wednesday, in the form of a viral controversy about its creator and a pending magazine story about the #MeToo movement. The result is that we now know the creator of the list— journalist Moira Donegan wrote a piece for The Cut Wednesday night identifying herself—but the whole controversy creates as many questions as it answers. On Tuesday, N+1 Read more
A Flu Pandemic Is In Our Future. Time to Read 'The Stand.'
Stephen King's 1978 horror novel can be our guidebook to a post-flupocalyptic world.
11:50 AM, Jan 10, 2018
The flu is coming—and eventually, another pandemic. Consensus says, we’re not prepared. But don’t take it from me. There have been warnings. This doomy New York Times op-ed, for example, points out that the bugs that strike seasonally are starting to outstrip our power to inoculate against them—while our worldwide connectedness and global dependence on life-saving drugs manufactured in India and China only speed up an inevitable flu pandemic’s path of destruction. And a whole heap of bad Read more
Scenes of 'Fire and Fury'
Who turned up at midnight for a first look at Michael Wolff's new tell-all? A whole lot of reporters.
9:43 AM, Jan 05, 2018
“I’m not sure a lot of people will come at midnight,” said the sales clerk who picked up the phone at Kramer Books when I called Thursday evening, wondering whether they were bracing for a crowd later that night. The Dupont Circle store had just announced via Twitter that it would start selling the most talked-about book in D.C.—Michael Wolff’s tell-all account of Trump’s first year in office, Fire and Fury —nine hours ahead of other booksellers. Thanks to excerpts published online this wee Read more
Meet the Ex-Con Running for Governor of Connecticut
He's made a novel argument: The state deserves a second chance, just like he does.
4:00 PM, Jan 04, 2018
Eight years after his release from federal prison, Joe Ganim is ready to run. For governor, that is. The 58-year-old Democrat Ganim told me, in an interview last year, that a comeback spirit similar to his own can drive Connecticut out of the fiscal doldrums. About a year and half into his second stint as mayor of Bridgeport, the state’s largest city, Ganim surveyed the city that had recently re-elected him—after seven years in the slammer for corruption charges—and declared things were lo Read more
Will Janus v. AFSCME Rein In Out-of-Control Public Sector Unions?
If unions are unable to collect dues from those who are disinclined to support the ever-more-political institutions, maybe they will tone it down already.
12:12 PM, Jan 03, 2018
The new year is shaping up to be one of reckoning for public-sector unions. Just a few days before Christmas, Janus v. AFSCME got its slot on the calendar of the Supreme Court—which, with Neil Gorsuch on the bench, is not stacked in labor’s favor. At stake is whether public unions can require workers to pay agency fees . The court is poised to revisit its 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education , which found that public employees who didn’t pay would benefit undeservedly as “f Read more
Tending to the Lost Light of Thomas Wilfred's 'Lumia'
There's one show of lights you won't want to miss this holiday week in Washington.
5:05 AM, Dec 28, 2017
For most of November and December, an unusual modern art exhibition down from New Haven didn’t seem to be getting its due notice. At least whenever I returned to these beautifully installed, dark back galleries of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the rooms holding Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light were never empty—but not quite crowded as they should be. Wilfred, a Danish-born artist unsatisfied with the power of painting and sculpture to convey light and movement, came to Ameri Read more
The UFO Stories You May Have Missed in 2017
While you were busy watching a Trumpster fire, alien vessels emerged from the shadows.
4:45 AM, Dec 27, 2017
It certainly stands to reason that the news most likely to unite a nation divided against itself would win so little notice in a year like 2017. Maybe we just don’t want to overcome our differences in fearsome awe of the intergalactic Other, OK? The popular appetite for otherworldly updates is nowhere near its 1970s peak, and the news-consuming public is preoccupied with disturbing events on our own planet. All of which makes the first year of the Trump era a perfect time to test humanity’s ca Read more
College Women Are Far Less Likely To Be Raped Than Their Working Class Counterparts
Obama's Title IX regime has never looked so misguided, not to mention elitist.
1:08 PM, Dec 21, 2017
Women are more likely to have been sexually assaulted by the age of 44 if they didn’t go to college, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. The study, spearheaded by sociology professor and researcher William Axinn, found that the risk of “experiencing forced intercourse” is more than 2.5 times greater for women who’ve attended little or no college. After more than six years’ intense focus on a purported campus rape crisis, Axinn’s study exposes the Obama administration’s Ti Read more
The 'War on Christmas' Is Boring
Per new Pew data, a lot of people just don't care.
4:55 AM, Dec 18, 2017
Americans really don’t care about a “war on Christmas” anymore. Per a recent Pew survey , more than half of U.S. adults believe the Christian trappings of Christmas—crèches, crosses, magi chasing stars—are less prominent now than they were in the past. Meanwhile, 30 percent say the slippage hasn’t increased, and a mere 12 percent claim to see a reverse trend. The majority—56 percent, precisely—may be onto something. A declining number of professed Christians believe in the historical real Read more
#MeToo vs. the Museum
What we don't talk about when we're forced to "Talk about Balthus."
11:30 AM, Dec 15, 2017
Thérèse Dreaming , by the Polish-French painter Balthus, is undeniably creepy. Creepy enough to launch, in this day and age, an online petition demanding it either be removed from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, or that “context” be added to the display. The museum abstained from any action, but it remains a cautionary tale. As communications director Kenneth Weine said in a statement: “Our mission is to present significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connec Read more
RNC Committeewoman's Resignation Over Moore Support Reveals Party Divide
Fellow RNC members' reactions to Joyce Simmons's departure vary from disapproval to applause for her principled stand.
5:21 PM, Dec 11, 2017
Members of the Republican National Committee are responding to the news that Joyce Simmons, committeewoman for Nebraska, resigned her post Monday in response to the RNC renewing its support for Roy Moore. In an email to her fellow RNC leaders, Simmons wrote: “I strongly disagree with the recent RNC financial support directed to the Alabama Republican Party for use in the Roy Moore race. There is much I could say about this situation, but I will defer to this weekend's comments by Senator Shelb Read more
As Election Approaches, 13 RNC Members React to the Party's Re-embrace of Roy Moore
"I do not support Roy Moore, nor would I support any candidate with the sort of allegations that have been made against him," said Mississippi's committeeman.
9:29 AM, Dec 11, 2017
The Republican National Committee reversed its decision to withdraw financial support from Roy Moore’s Senate campaign last week, in the wake of President Trump’s endorsement and Moore’s gains in the polls. Some members of the RNC—state-level committeemen, commiteewomen, and state chairs—saw the decision as a correction of course, while others viewed it as a failure of moral leadership on the part of their party. The former federal judge, who was twice removed from the bench, stands cred Read more
RNC Members React to the Party's Re-embrace of Roy Moore
"We have to learn to build better men," said one GOP committeewoman.
7:25 PM, Dec 08, 2017
In the wake of President Trump’s official endorsement of Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore, the Republican National Committee chose to resume funding Moore’s campaign for the U.S. Senate, a move that state-level members of the RNC greeted with a range of sanguinity. The embattled Alabaman has been credibly accused of pursuing, assaulting, or molesting eight young , vulnerable women—one of them under the legal age of consent—but denies the allegations. As accusations mounted last month, h Read more
Who Will Survive the Pervnado?
Some offenders are toast. Others? We'll see.
2:39 PM, Dec 06, 2017
I’m not sure who coined the term “pervnado” to describe the torrential whirlwind of sexual harassment allegations roiling the already morally unhinged mirror worlds of show business, media, and politics. (Although, from the looks of it, we can thank headline writers at the New York Post for the portmanteau’s profligacy.) “Pervnado” conveys the unstoppable, unpredictable scope of reputational destruction. But, as with an actual natural disaster, the damage varies by degrees not always deser Read more
Criminalizing Catcalls: It's Complicated
Free speech, race, and feminism a tricky subject make.
6:00 AM, Dec 04, 2017
When this fall’s rampant #MeToo movement rippled overseas, it found a far superior French hashtag—#BalanceTonPorc, meaning “squeal on your pig”—and an already pending piece of legislation. A new law, first proposed over the summer by President Emmanuel Macron’s secretary of gender equality, would make catcalling a crime. At 34, Marlene Schiappa is the youngest member of Macron’s cabinet, and her actual (English) title “State Secretary to the Prime Minister for Equality Between Women and Men Read more