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Death, Explained
Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality: A rare honest book about death.
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Enough With Vagina
It’s no longer shocking to casually drop that word, so let’s stop.
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The Seven Myths of Helicopter Parenting
Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re not one, because you probably are.
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New York Times, Stop Moralizing About Single Mothers
No, their households are not always sad and falling apart.
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Preglimony and Pro-Choice Rhetoric
If we ask fathers to support a pregnancy, aren’t we admitting that the fetus is a child?
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Unexpected Pregnancy, Morality, and the Law
Should a man be responsible for supporting a baby he didn’t want?
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Slaves to the Child
A review of Elisabeth Badinter’s The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
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Why Is the Sex on HBO’s Girls Such a Drag?
The show’s skittishness about sex is just old-fashioned moralism.
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Do Childish People Write Better Children’s Books?
The soothing anthem Goodnight Moon was written by someone so restless.
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Is The Hunger Games Publicity Too Hunger Games-ish?
Ooh, I love my new forged metal heels!
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Singled Out
Why are Americans still so obsessed with single people—and so scared by them?
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Rabbit at Rest
The bizarre and misguided critical assault on John Updike’s reputation.
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