Culture
Engagement Inflation
Marriage proposals are getting bigger and flashier.
The Internet, for Fun and Profit
Does Andrew Sullivan’s new business model promise anything for the content creators he aggregates?
It’s Different With Kids
What you see in movies (and the wider culture) changes when you become a parent.
And One Man In His Time Plays Many Parts
Until last week, I would have nominated “The Master” as the most …
“Argo” Backfires As Campaign Ad, Misfires As Film
I finally got around to seeing “Argo” earlier this week, and was …
Close Encounter
The last days of the Cold War’s greatest journal
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Intoxicated America
The war on drugs is a war on human nature.
The Pictures Got Small – And That’s Okay
Alan Jacobs wonders when fiction was “king” and suggests that it was …
Some Thoughts on Birth Dearth
Was the pre-modern family “child-centered?”
Girls on Top
Has an era of female dominance begun? A look at Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men.
Utopia by the Slice
How Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan corrupted the Catholic university he tried to create.
Wikifaves
Apropos of nothing at all, here are a dozen of my favorite …
The Material Basis Of A Marriage Culture
On Saturday, Rod Dreher quoted Eve Tushnet approvingly on the limits of …
Disturbing Our Self-Delight
That’s a phrase I’m going to remember – and, hopefully, steal. I’m …
Upper Middle Brow
In search of art that will “disturb our self-delight”
Lost in Translation
The Economist’s language columnist Johnson writes about visiting a village in East …
