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Full articleCathy Young (born Ekaterina Jung; 1963) is a Russian-American journalist, author, and commentator known for her libertarian-leaning critiques of modern feminism, advocacy for free speech and due process, and analyses of Soviet-era experiences. Born in Moscow, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1980 at age 17 and became a naturalized citizen. Young earned a B.A. in English from Rutgers University in 1988, with induction into Phi Beta Kappa. She authored Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (1989), a memoir of her childhood under Soviet communism, and Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (1999), which promotes gender equity through mutual cooperation rather than zero-sum conflict. As a contributing editor for Reason magazine, former columnist for The Boston Globe, and research associate at the Cato Institute, Young has written extensively on excesses in movements like #MeToo—emphasizing the need for evidence-based accusations and presumption of innocence—and on threats to open discourse from both ideological extremes.
In brief
Cathy Young arrived from the Soviet Union with a skeptic’s ear for official stories. In the United States she became a journalist of culture-war subjects who refuses to join a team.
Her books and columns treat feminism and free speech as arguments, not banners. The voice is liberal in the older sense: allergic to dogma.
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