Lehrman Bloch's criticism of women's studies programs in a September/October 1993 cover story for Mother Jones "ignited heated exchanges in the women's studies community, the press, and on radio talk shows around the country."
In the subsequent November/December issue, Mother Jones published 14 responses to Lehrman Bloch's piece, most prominently feminist writer Susan Faludi.
"[4] Writing for The New York Times in 1995, Wendy Kaminer called Lehrman Bloch "perhaps the sharpest of the young individualist critics" of third-wave feminism.
[5] In her 1997 book The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World, Lehrman Bloch protested "group-think" feminism.
The magazine, named after the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany, is dedicated to classical liberalism and opposing extremism.