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Experiments in Matrimony
Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriageby stephen macedoprinceton, 320 pages, $29.95 Before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the law of most states...
Solving the Poor
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by robert d. putnam simon & schuster, 400 pages, $28 In a recent article in the New York Review of Books on...
On Libertines
How Sex Became a Civil Liberty? by leigh ann wheeler? oxford, 352 pages, $34.95 n The 2013 Oscar ceremony, says Ross Douthat, revealed “the movie business’s essential schizophrenia, which...
Just Kidding
Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate by Christine Overall MIT, 272 pages, $27.95 This book, like my three children, frequently gave me a headache. Just as I was oblivious...