A Play, An Election, And Some Other Things

I regularly read (and often link) articles at National Review, but I found Kyle Smith's review of Jonathan Leaf's play The Fight particularly interesting.  The play is an allegory based on the real-life "bitter acquaintance" (Smith's term) between two prominent second-wave feminists, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.  From NR:

The play's antagonists, Doris (a steely Judith Hawking) and Phyllis (played as a woman very aware of her beauty by Fleur Alys Dobbins) are lightly disguised stand-ins for Friedan and Steinem respectively.

Smith points out that he counts Leaf "as a friend".  He also states that the play starts with Doris recalling her relationship with Phyllis to a grad student, the conversation being set in the early 1990's.  If I had the chance, I would ask Leaf if he had any specific reason for choosing the grad student's name.  To learn her name, you must read the full story.

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If you're in Virginia or New Jersey, unless you're disqualified for whatever reason, you should vote for governor tomorrow.  Read more at CNN.  (I had erroneously said "today".  Nothing like forgetting what day it is.)

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In other stories:

From Voice Of Europe, Geert Wilders warns that the Dutch are loosing their country.

From the Express, the German Army prepares for the end of the E.U.

From Reuters, Northern Ireland will undertake the Brexit along with the rest of the U.K., Bangladeshi police arrest a militant wanted for the murder of an American blogger, and the Libyan Coast Guard and a German NGO blame each other after five migrants die when their boat overturns.  (I sometimes wonder how migrants get their boats, or who provides them.  From what I understand, they can be rather expensive.)

From the Daily Mail, an "Allahu akbar" breaks out at a Spanish school.

From About Hungary, Hungary and Bulgaria continue to build their relationship.

From Sputnik International, a British man suspected of fraud, and who reportedly has used more than 20 aliases, is arrested in Spain.

From WestMonster, a Syrian refugee in Germany demands that Angela Merkel buys him a car.

From Breitbart London, the British Muslim group Tell MAMA demands that Google ensures that searches do not bring "anti-Muslim" results.

From Fox News, Greek police claim to have busted a criminal operation that sold fake identities to illegal migrants in Europe.

From ANSA Med, Saudi Arabia has frozen the bank accounts of the people detained for alleged corruption.

From The Northern Echo, a Kuwaiti man who had entered Britain illegally, and is now known as the "riverbank rapist", gets 12 years.

From Information Nigeria, a 13-year-old Christian girl escapes after being abducted by a Muslim boy.

From India Samvad, an anti-terror squad has arrested an alleged ISIS recruiter at the Mumbai airport.

From FrontpageMag, Antifa's 11/4 protests were largely underwhelming.

From Townhall, the Democrats "drive toward the cliff and hit the gas".

And from Lifehacker, six weird ways to start a fire.