THE NEW YORK TIMES wedding and engagement anouncements have for a long time trumpeted careerism in women and treated a nuptial as the merger of resumés. They make excruciatingly boring reading, detailing the bride’s career, the groom’s career, the fathers’ careers, the mothers’ careers, the stepfathers’ careers and the stepmothers’ careers.
A wedding announcement for today’s paper accidentally included comments in its [...]

 
THE FEDERAL government has no constitutional authority to require answers to many of the personal questions it asks on census forms, including queries on race, physical disabilities, and income. In fact, it is only authorized to count people. That’s it.
Here is an excellent report by Jerry Day on the over-reach of our national statisticians, who are naturally [...]

 
William B. writes:
I once blurted out one of Basil Ransom’s lines from The Bostonians when affforded a rare social opportunity: “I haven’t been to a party since Mississippi seceded!” 

 
THE MEN’S RIGHTS movement is tainted by self-interest and misogyny. Nevertheless, the restoration of Western society depends on men: their leadership, confidence, foresight, judgment, strength, intellect and dynamism.
Here is a statement to this effect by a man known as Elder George of Men’s Action to Rebuild Society, a New Age effort to reestablish patriarchy:
In order to change the [...]

 
SAGE McLAUGHLIN WRITES:
I should say that I find the idea of a “men’s movement” not merely quixotic but wrong. The basic premise is that there are political and social interests that are specifically male interests, which all men share in common and which must compete with women’s interests to prevent men being defrauded of their [...]

 
IN A piece called “So who is on the side of men?,” Mark Richardson, an excellent Australian analyst of feminism, considers  the influence of Roissy, the blogger who offers advice on female conquest and is widely touted as an inspirational force for men. Richardson writes:
So is Roissy then someone who is better placed to lead a men’s movement? A movement of [...]

 N.W. writes:
While reading the discussion following Brittany’s questions concerning the differences between the sexes, I was reminded of Richard Wilbur’s poem She. One aspect of the poem I always liked was Wilbur’s implicit observation that all things men hold dear they refer to as “she.” He writes of how she “in time took on / [...]

 
GAIL AGGEN WRITES:

May you always walk with God, may you rejoice with the companion of your youth until you are old and full of years, may your children rise up and call you blessed, may you dance at your grandchildren’s weddings, may your barns be ever full to overflowing, may you die a happy and [...]