Anne Maloney, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Anne Maloney

Anne M. Maloney is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Marquette University in 1988. Her areas of specialization include Philosophy of Women, Ethics, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy of Religion, and Existentialism.

Al McGuire, My Dad, and Me

By Anne Maloney|2024-05-12T20:30:17-05:00May 12th, 2024|Categories: Love, Sports|

My dad brought Al McGuire to me in 1973, when I was a sick and depressed twelve-year-old kid. Al McGuire brought that same twelve-year-old girl the coolest shirt in the world, two wall hangings, season tickets, and the best thing of all: a way to hug my father. Most girls who develop crushes confine themselves [...]

How the Hook-Up Culture Is Damaging Women

By Anne Maloney|2024-04-29T18:37:04-05:00July 22nd, 2016|Categories: Culture War, Feminism, Sexuality|

Contemporary sexual culture is toxic for young women, and until women stand up and acknowledge that fact, despair, sadness, and regret are going to be the underlying chord structure of their very lives. We fail an entire generation when we withhold from them the “wisdom not to do desperate things.” A stereotyped but unconscious despair [...]