Culture

Can Sexual Orientation Change?0
- Culture
- August 21, 2018
You can tell when an opinion begins to harden into a dogma – when Hollywood releases a film about heroic victims of oppressive zealots. Which is what has happened this year on the topic of “gay conversion therapy”. Not one, but two films describe the horrors endured by gay teenagers whose parents force them to
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Pediatricians Are Now Writing ‘Play Prescriptions’0
- Culture
- August 21, 2018
Kids need to play. It seems like an obvious statement, as central to childhood as eating peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches and chasing fireflies. For generations, parents have known that a play-filled childhood is essential for healthy physical and mental development. They didn’t need to read the latest research findings on play. They didn’t need experts to
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High Schoolers Don’t Read Books Anymore… and Why That Sets Them Up for Failure 0
- Culture
- August 20, 2018
By now, it’s a well-known fact that American adults don’t read. Fourteen percent can’t read at all. Thirteen percent can’t read proficiently. And according to Pew, one in four adults didn’t even bother to pick up a book in the last year. But these are adults, right? They’re busy with work and parenting and social
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This T.S. Eliot Poem Describes Modern Males Perfectly 1
- Culture
- August 20, 2018
In his famous poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot proved prophetic, predicting the new kind of man and the new kind of courtship that would dominate the modern world. If people want to understand the insecurities, the indecision, and the wince-inducing incompetence of single men today, they will find it all
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4 Ways to Talk to Boring People 0
- Culture
- August 20, 2018
If, like myself, you are an incurable snot, you probably often find yourself trapped in hopelessly boring conversations with hopelessly boring people. These, “boring people” could be friends, relatives, coworkers – anyone whom social standards (and basic human decency) oblige you to regularly engage in small-talk. However, even as you shrivel up inside as one
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Motherhood: Why Society is Making it the Most Stress-Ridden Career 0
- Culture
- August 17, 2018
An op-ed published last week in the New York Times has confirmed that motherhood is the most controversial and stress-ridden career of the 21st century. Author Kim Brooks knows this better than most. For her, it all started with a knock on the door by a police officer with a warrant for her arrest. The
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