Christina Larson is managing editor of The Washington Monthly. Washington Monthly articles by Christina Larson: September 2006: Hoosier Daddy What rising Democratic star Barack Obama can learn from an old lion of the GOP. May 2006: The Emerging Environmental Majority There is a thaw in relations between greens and hunters. It could heat up big-time over global warming. January/February 2006: The End of Hunting? Why only progressive government can save a great American pastime. December 2005: There Goes the Neighborhood The last low-rent office building in downtown DC smokes out the National Organization for Women, US-Ukraine Foundation, a private eye, and The Washington Monthly. July/Agust 2005: When Real Men Wore Heels How the demands of empires shaped the history of fashion. April 2005: From Venus to Minerva Most fashion magazines play on women's insecurities. Anna Wintour's Vogue plays on their ambitions. April 2005: A Tale of Two Cities Get Ready for "Paris on the Potomac." March 2005: 7 Mistakes Superheroines Make Why the latest action-babe flicks flopped. March 2005: Postmodern Protests Why modern marches matter only to the marchers. December 2004: The Joy of Sexology Does it matter that Alfred Kinsey enjoyed his work more than he let on? November 2004: Tour of Beauty A hundred years in the arms race to acquire newer, better weapons of cosmetic enhancement. July/August 2004: Movable Feat The insanity of relocating the Olympics every four years. March 2004: All the General's Men Wesley Clark's disappointed army in Washington. January/February 2004: If At First Why Washington political operatives will be voting for Howard Dean. December 2002: Talk Dirty A review of Janice M. Irvine's "Talk About Sex: Battles Over Sex Education in the United States." September 2002: Pork for Prudes How conservatives score, while teaching kids not to. April 2002: Sins of Commission Insurance coverage has become the brass ring of the alternative medicine movement. January/February 2002: Of Corset Matters A review of Valerie Steele's "The Corset: A Cultural History." October 2001: Reconstructing Rockwell How an American icon became an artist. November 2000: Cosmic Minutia A review of Philip Hamburger's "Matters of State: A Political Excursion."