Category Archives: family

An Open Letter to Patrick Deneen about the Family

Background: on May 13, 2022, the self-described “post-liberal” conservative Patrick Deneen appeared on Ezra Klein’s podcast. He got some things…

Abortion has remained America’s most intractable political issue because it defies compromise. If you believe that abortion is the murder…

1. The 1950s are sui generis We often view the thirty years after World War II as a golden age…

Soul Mates will be officially launched at a book event at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC on January…

In April I attended a symposium in DC organized by David Blankenhorn and the Institute for American Values on the…

In Wolfinger (2003), I analyze data from the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households. Controlling for family structure of…

This is an extended version of an essay that appeared in the Pacific Standard on January 8, 2014. Women made…

This is a response to “The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind,” a New York Times blog post on…