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About Vivian Dudro
Vivian Dudro is Senior Editor at Ignatius Press. Over the last 35 years, she has written news articles, book reviews, and columns for various Catholic media, including the National Catholic Register, Catholic World Report, and Catholic San Francisco. She has been interviewed on radio and television programs, both Catholic and secular, about a variety of literary and religious topics. Vivian and her husband live in San Francisco and are the parents of four grown children.
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Seeing Woman through the Eyes of Gertrud von le Fort

April 25, 2026 Vivian Dudro 9

Editor’s note: This essay was delivered as an address on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at the Symposium on Transforming Culture, Benedictine College, Atchison, KS. “The hand that rocks the cradle”, “The power behind the throne”—both […]

Analysis

Camille Paglia, Plato, and the paradox of freedom

December 13, 2018 Vivian Dudro 14

Camille Paglia is an enigma. Identifying more with males than females since childhood, Paglia calls herself trans; yet she rejects a key false assumption of transgender ideology: “The cold biological truth is that sex changes […]

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