In the heyday of feminism, Gloria Steinem was surely the most appealing figure. She was beautiful — she rose to media attention by becoming a Playboy bunny and then writing about it — and she was smart. An entrepreneur, she was a leading force behind Ms. magazine, which turned the Ladies’ Home Journal type of magazine on its head. (Ms. had a good run, but the traditional genre outlasted it.)

Today, however, Steinem blames the world’s ills on capitalism, has a left-wing political agenda, and recreates history according to her whim. On the Pope Center site today, Anthony Papalas, an emeritus history professor at East Carolina University, reports on a recent lecture Steinem gave at the university.