This paper was originally delivered at the first Capitol Hill Symposium, sponsored by The Family in America, on December 7, 2012. Inthelastelectioncycle, we were treated to the spectacle of one political party accusing the other of waging a war against women. I agree that there is a war against women, but not the one we […]
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From Family Collapse to America’s Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation Mitch Pearlstein Rowman & Littlefield, 2011; 165 pages, $50.00 On January 12, 2012, CNN News ran a headline, “Forced To Wear Sign: Dynesha Lax ‘I Lie, I Steal, I Sell Drugs.’”The story leads off: The mother of a troubled 14-year-old […]
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Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men Mara Hvistendahl Public Affairs, 2011; 314 pages, $26.99 This brave and timely book has many strengths and one glaring, but understandable, weakness. The strength of this book is the reporting. Mara Hvistendahl, a liberal, pro-choice feminist, painstakingly documents the catastrophic […]
Read MoreTitle X, Medicaid, and the Eisenstadt Decision In a 1972 decision widely hailed by the political classes, the Supreme Court opined in Eisenstadt v. Baird, “If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right to be free from unwarranted government intrusions into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to […]
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Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element John D. Mueller ISI Books, 2010; 452 pages, $27.95 John Mueller’sRedeeming Economics is an impressive achievement, really three books in one. Mueller rewrites the history of economics in the first book. In the second book, Mueller expands the concerns of economics, in the light of his historical reinterpretation. The […]
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Family and Civilization Carle C. Zimmerman; Edited by James Kurth with an introduction by Allan C. Carlson ISI Books, 2008; 320 pages, $18.00 The War between the State and the Family:How Government Divides and Impoverishes Patricia Morgan Transaction Publishers, 2008; 162 pages, $24.95 When first published in 1947, Family and Civilization was a significant book on the […]
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A Promise to Ourselves:A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce Alec Baldwin St. Martin’s Press, 2008; 240 pages, $24.95 Taken into Custody:The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family Stephen Baskerville Cumberland House, 2007; 368 pages, $24.95 In 2007, the media had a feeding frenzy around a voice-mail message actor Alec Baldwin left his daughter. He screamed […]
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