POV: you are a high school freshman in English class and your life is about to be changed forever

And thanks to Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman for the fascinating books that helped inform the piece

This piece, by Christine Emba, is so interesting: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

This is a very good article by Christine Emba on the real reason why people aren't having kids: a crisis of meaning. A must read for policy makers. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

ok but this is actually a good idea.

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new piece out today! informed by fascinating books from Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

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"except his downfall" is so...👀

“I’m looking for a man in finance. Trust fund. Six-five. Blue eyes.” The lyrics of the viral "Man in Finance" song highlight the bleak realities at the core of modern heterosexual dating, Christine Emba writes: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

ICYMI: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

exploring the man-in-finance to tradwife pipeline: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

"Why climb a greasy career ladder (which may be missing the rungs at the top) when you can take a 6-foot-5 elevator to a life of luxury?" Great line in a (characteristically) great piece by Christine Emba - theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

One of our best recent episodes: Anastasia Berg (Anastasia Berg) and Rachel Wiseman (Rachel Wiseman) on their new book, WHAT ARE CHILDREN FOR? which tackles, head-on, all the questions and anxieties shared by anyone starting a family today. (w/Damir Marusic & @christineemba) Listen

i literally wrote a book about this amazon.com/Rethinking-Sex…

So this is exciting -- I'm a finalist for a Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Opinion Writing, for last summer's essay "Men Are Lost."