On January 6, 1973, the anthropologist Margaret Mead published a startling little essay in TV Guide.

NEWYORKER: The Reality Principle

Margaret Mead was right, in the end: reality television was is a new kind of art form.

NEWYORKER: The Reality Principle

Each year she spends a few months "in the field, " playing Margaret Mead to America's youth by studying how they use technology.

FORBES: Focus

In 1999, the political scientist Alan Wolfe pointed out that much of the scholarship Friedan relied on in her diagnosis of the feminine mystique work by Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, and Bruno Bettelheim has since turned out to be suspect.

NEWYORKER: Books as Bombs