In the 16th century, London’s mentally ill were often kept at Bethlem Royal Hospital. The conditions inside the hospital were…
Atheism has nearly always been with us in one form or another, but the atheists we’ve been hearing the most…
A new book, entitled Falling Behind, attempts to resolve one of the defining paradoxes of our age: Why doesn’t increased…
In study after study, the absence of fathers is linked to a host of what social scientists call “adverse outcomes”…
Eight years ago, a young writer named Wendy Shalit took the culture by storm with a radical book called A…
It doesn’t pay to take your constitutional right to free speech seriously anymore—at least, not if you live in Oakland,…
It was an event all new parents enjoy: watching their unborn child turn somersaults on the ultrasound screen. Seeing their…
If there’s a child in your house, then you probably know what’s going to happen when the clock strikes…
Are Americans gradually becoming illiterate? It’s not because we never learned to read, but because we’re relying more and…
If you’re not already weary of the 2008 presidential election campaign—some 18 months before we vote—you must be living in…