"In recent decades," Stephanie Coontz writes, "many parts of the world have seen a revival of the more pernicious form of nostalgia … the longing to re-create not a pleasant feeling or specific experience from the past, but rather a bygone way of life." Coontz, considered one of the foremost experts on the history of marriage, is very concerned about people trying to re-create the 1950s. But one gets the sense reading her new book, For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage, that she would like to re-create the Stone Age.
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Now that the Lindsay Clancy case just ended in a mistrial and justice is, for the moment, suspended, it’s time to pay special attention to a certain kind of woman, a perfect example of which showed herself while Plymouth County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Timothy Cruz was talking to news media immediately after the trial judge […]
We do not make the child fit the backpack. We keep looking until we find the one that fits the child. Education deserves at least that much imagination.
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It’s not hard to see that as America’s culture has become coarser, so too has its music. Scroll through some of the top songs in the country and you’re bound to find many accompanied by a red-coated “explicit” symbol warning listeners that it’s probably not suited to be played around Nana or children. Even for […]
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The road trip is about celebrating this country and reminding Americans that our nation is still something worth experiencing and loving.
With God and the Imago Dei kicked to the curb, it's a Peter Singer world where babies are less than human and animals get promoted to take their place.
'Their chatter about fertility rates was never about happy families or a prosperous nation,' Marcotte writes, concluding that 'Republicans will gladly sacrifice happiness and prosperity for the goal of subjugating women.'
The social taboo against questioning how disillusioned men presented themselves may have helped keep child abuse unreported.
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