Given the amount of abuse that’s already been piled on Christina Hoff Summers’ Weekly Standard cover story on “ The Subjection of Islamic Women: And the fecklessness of American feminism.,” I’m sure someone has already done this. But since AEI conveniently lists scholar publications, I figured I’d go check out the many pieces Summers herself […]

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In the aftermath of a few well publicized rape/murder cases in New York last year, I wrote that I found it somewhat unsettling how quick some folks were to decry as “victim blaming” or “slut shaming” any suggestion that these ought to serve as tragic reminders that, for instance, there are parts of Manhattan where […]

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Kerry notes that Garance Franke Ruta has proposed raising the age of consent for “providing erotic content on film” to 21. There’s a tiny part of me that half wants to see this happen just so I can watch the extent of GFR’s “That’s not what I meant!” freakout when some 21 year old woman […]

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It’s an article of faith in social conservative circles that unilateral divorce has been a disaster, precipitating the collapse of the American family. Tyler Cowen begs to differ in today’s New York Times. Citing

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Plenty of folk more qualified to comment are already all over today’s Supreme Court decision upholding a 2003 band on D&X abortions, but a couple things struck me. First, the Court accepts at face value Congress’ (apparently false) finding that D&X is never “medically necessary,” which is why the court let the law stand even […]

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Garance Franke-Ruta detects “1950s thinking” in the police decision not to immediately warn students about a killer on the loose at VA Tech. This seems uncharitable. Obviously, in hindsight, we all wish a warning had been issued and the campus closed. But most people who kill someone don’t then go on a shooting spree. And […]

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Via AmSpec, a new report by the research firm Mathematica finds that, in a way, both sides in the war over abstinence education have gotten it wrong: Abstinence programs don’t leave the kids who do become sexually active more likely to have unprotected sex, but neither do they make any difference in whether and when […]

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Last week, Maggie Gallagher had been urging me to have a look at this Weekly Standard piece by David Blankenhorn, which is the latest attempt to persuade us that giving more people access to marriage will destroy marriage. Fortunately, I don’t have to do much here, since Dale Carpenter has taken it apart rather more […]

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Via MoJo Blog, a new Williams Institute study [PDF] calculates that cost to states of excluding gay parents from the foster care system nationwide would run to about $130 million. I wrote about the burgeoning war on gay parents back in 2005.

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Lindsay Beyerstein gets it precisely right. Though on the question of taking measures in utero to determine the orientation of a child, I’m a bit fuzzier: Certainly, to the extent these are risky, it seems grotesque to chance leaving your child with some kind of serious physical defect just to ensure it comes out straight. […]

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