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  • Mom Teaches Son to ‘Adult’ in a Refreshingly Creative Way

    Mom Teaches Son to ‘Adult’ in a Refreshingly Creative Way0

    A few months ago, I wrote about “The Adulting School,” a place where parents can send their grown children to learn the skills they failed to teach them as young children. So far, the school seems to be a success, indicating that many from the Participation Trophy Generation really can turn into capable adults with

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  • Mohammed Cartoon Publisher: The Definition of Tolerance has Changed

    Mohammed Cartoon Publisher: The Definition of Tolerance has Changed0

    A little more than a decade ago, Europe erupted over several cartoon drawings of the prophet Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper. For the man at the heart of the controversy, newspaper publisher Flemming Rose, the experience was an unpleasant one whose repercussions have continued to this day. In a recent interview for Reason Magazine,

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  • Modesty, Faith, and Burqa Bans

    Modesty, Faith, and Burqa Bans0

    In America, talk about dress codes usually revolves around miniskirts, half shirts, and what sayings and gestures cross the line of appropriate for printed t-shirts in public spaces. Yet this issue could soon evolve into discussions of when dress in the name of modesty and religious observance also goes too far. This thought came to

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  • Modern Plagues at Our Door

    Modern Plagues at Our Door14

    From my favorite chair, I heard my 11-year-old son Eric playing indoor baseball with his friend in our basement. The sound of their rising voices drifted upstairs as they argued over a rule in their made-up game. Finally, Eric called a stalemate: “Let’s ask my dad — he’ll know.” I heard his footsteps start up

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  • Modern Plagues and the Prescience of Ray Bradbury

    Modern Plagues and the Prescience of Ray Bradbury0

    I am haunted by a lonely man. At sundown every day, he walked the neighborhood sidewalks, glancing at lives through windows. “Was that a murmur of laughter from within a moon-white house?” he asked as he passed the homes of his neighbors. He could not see people or their faces, just the glare of light

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  • Modern Men in the City

    Modern Men in the City0

    What does it mean to be masculine? It’s a question I posed recently to a young man at a coffee shop—let’s call him “Adam.” Adam, about 20, was intensely fixated on a Green Lantern graphic novel at the time. I noticed the book before I noticed Adam. It was a thick black hard covered book furnishing fleshed

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