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“What’s Not Hot?” This blatantly misogynistic headline is how Jack Shafer celebrates International Women’s Day with his review on the Tina Brown’s debut issue of the Newsweek redesign. “Newsweek suffers [an]… avoidance of newsiness and the week” he says while complaining about “the queen of cold, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton” on the cover, a list of “150 Women Who Shake the World” and the “women theme” throughout.

It’s not enough to stop the dismissiveness at …