A striking passage from Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, the recently published memoir by musician and political activist Kathleen Hanna offers some insight into why I think serious conservatives ought to shed their resistance to familiarizing themselves with happenings in our popular culture:

Did I want to go back to stripping? No, but it was something I was good at. My dad had taught me to emotionally play dead to deal with his creepy behavior, and in my own twisted, unhealthy game of “lemons to lemonade,” I turned his abuse into lunchboxes full of cash.

Rebel Girl is a fascinating and well-written book, but it’s also one that offers arguments conservatives may find both surprising and more compelling than they might expect. There are things in this book that will certainly make more sense to people on the right than they do to Hanna’s friends on the left.