Posted on July 29, 2008 by haley1018
I threw my hat into the blogosphere’s recent marriage debate (see Martin, Singal, Matthews, and Marcotte, phew) last week with a post on how much gender plays a role in a person’s acceptance of critiques of marriage as weak or strong.
Matt Zeitlin at Pushback adds a critical component to the debate, when he zooms out [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2008 by haley1018
Now, it’s not like I find it shocking that David Brooks would write something completely ridiculous and stupid and out of touch, but this column plugging a book which says conservatives can win working-class Americans back by addressing their needs with a bias toward the traditional two-parent family is just completely ridiculous:
Liberals write about economic [...]
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