On a micro level, it has recently dawned on me what high-cost delinquent dads are to society. During my time teaching at an Ivy League school, more than half of my office hours were spent with male students looking for…
One year ago, almost to the day, I used this column as a “post-wedding dispatch” to offer some (very) preliminary thoughts on marriage. The column was published five days after my wedding. Now, almost exactly one year later, I am…
As a girl, Kamala Harris had a fairly absent father. Fifty years later, she still does. As it turns out, the most important Donald in her life doesn’t have the last name Trump: Donald J. Harris, Ph.D. is alive and…
A particularly idiotic aphorism touted by our mindless culture is this cliché: Wait until you have enough money to have kids. This nugget serves as secular wisdom, courtesy of the noxious winds of the zeitgeist. It always frustrates me. When…
