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In her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (excerpted in Quillette on August 27), essayist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt documents just how damaging the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and its normalization of divorce in particular, has been to America’s children. She mentions
A UBI system would do far more than any other policy proposed by the current set of Democratic candidates to reduce the vulnerability of such women.
The panic over identity, in short, is being driven by the fact that the human animal has been selected for familial forms of socialization that for many people no longer exist.
The Left often shies away from making a strong case for family values, despite the fact that family stability may be immensely beneficial for the working class and for black Americans who have high rates of single-mother families.
A willingness to listen requires us to first recognize that our shared humanity means that we have more in common than that which divides us.
To figure out what’s really going on, it’s worth taking a broader look at today’s teens – a generation of kids I call “iGen” – and the environment they’re living in.
Their accomplishment was huge; not because they moulded me into the man that I am today. No, their accomplishment was even greater.
A number of popular articles (and books) have implored people to have fewer children as a way of minimizing anthropogenic global warming.