Santa is harmless fun and existential comfort-food. So, consider this an attempted joyicide.
Tag: religion
Visiting Israel, with demography (this is not sustainable edition)
With audio, and photographs! Israel's trajectory is unsustainable in more ways than one. The political situation is not the subject of this post, but it's necessary to say at the beginning that the oppression of Palestinians by the state of Israel, made possible by the United States, is morally unacceptable and relative to all the…
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Who’s happy in marriage? (Not just rich, White, religious men, but kind of)
The trend is not good, but at least I can tell you the secret to marital happiness.
Couple fact patterns about sexuality and attitudes
More tolerance, religious diversity, more same-sex sex.
Teen birth rate low but Bible remains a concern
I'm no Bible expert, and this could all be a total coincidence, but I think some real research on it might be pretty interesting.
Pick your potion, Dalai Lama and Pope Francis edition
If you only like religious leaders who agree with what you already think, what do you need them for?
The difference fundamentalists make
For trust in science, gay marriage, and women's employment, the majority of American opposition comes from people who hold fundamentalist Christian views.
Santa’s magic, children’s wisdom, and inequality
What if we just gave children presents because we love them?
The persistence of gender differences, Catholic furor edition
The Pope's convention of male moral pontificators is convening to discuss family matters. One of the most important questions, as Ross Douthat has described at great length, is how to strike the right balance between laxity and rigorism on the question of divorce, to maximize Church membership by keeping divorced people (and their children) on the rolls…
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Arthur Brooks’s worldliness is showing
Why is God on the list of people to love, and what does that have to do with the funding the campaign against marriage equality?
Family Inequality 