Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Religion’s Bad Press
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good…
Homesick in Miami
The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami by david rieff simon & schuster, 220 pages, $21…
The Bible, Corrected
I Corinthians 6:9 Do not be deceived. Neither sexists, nor racists, nor ageists, nor looksists, nor ableists shall…
War in the Classroom
Battleground: One Mother’s Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen…
Poisoned Eros
Love and Friendship by allan bloom simon & schuster, 590 pages, $25 “Christianity gave Eros poison to…
Getting Real
A few months ago my stepdaughter turned eleven. On the verge of adolescence, Stella wonders daily about…
Population Policy: Ideology as Science
In recent years the poorer regions of the earth have been swept by a “population revolution” which,…
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected
(chanted to no tune in particular) BEFORE: by Julia Ward Howe Mine eyes have seen the glory…
Life’s Value
The Children of Men by p. d. james knopf, 241 pages, $22 For some years now the…
Illusory Compromise
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by gerald graff norton, 214…
Sparrows and Lilies
When I was pregnant with my first child, I asked my mother about labor. This woman who…
Men and Women—Can We Be Friends?
In Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, Socrates and Critobulus are discussing household management, in which the wife plays a major…
The World’s Oldest Virtue
Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses. Hardly anyone would dispute the…
Saving the World
In the Fall 1991 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly , which is very usefully devoted to the…
The Newtape File III
Dear Nephew, I trust it did not escape your notice that I have eliminated an affectionate diminutive…
