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Nightline’s Juju Chang interview’s Lisa on Stay-At-Home Dads
Imagine this — men stay at home doing the house work while we women go to work. Forget the backlash over stay at home moms. Now it’s stay at home dads under fire. Meet the fathers who say being Mr. Mom is not only manly, it’s a tough, full-time job.
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Tiger Mom Strives to Shock a Second Time, Fails
A reader of Amy Chua’s previous book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – that parenting guide-slash-high-pitched confessional-slash-assertion of racial superiority — might wonder, as I did, about the following: Where was Chua’s husband, the father of their two daughters, while she was haranguing the children, threatening to give away their dollhouse and burn their
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Lisa on NPR: Remembering Newtown
NPR “On Point” host Tom Ashbrook features Lisa on a panel discussion to discuss the lessons of Newtown. Stream the show from the WBUR.org website: Other panel members: Rev. Josh Pawelek, minister of the Unitarian Universality Society East in Manchester, Connecticut. (@RevJoshPawelek) Robert Spitzer, professor of political science at the State University of New York
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The Uncomfortable New Lessons of the Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre
Opinion in the absence of information is a specialty of our times. So when Adam Lanza committed that most inexplicable of crimes, opening fire in Sandy Hook Elementary school last year murdering twenty children and six adults (and, ultimately, killing himself), the explainers instantly began to tell us why. The 20-year-old Lanza, who had easy
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Orders of Grief: Newtown, One Year Later
For weeks, nobody slept. On the first night after the shootings in December, Raul Arguello lay awake in his bed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, listening to the sirens coming from the direction of his daughters’ school. His children, thank God, were warm and breathing under his roof, but the sirens reminded him that bodies—twenty of
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Ethical Parenting: Is There Such a Thing?
Imagine this scenario: It’s a Tuesday evening and you’re just home from work, still panting from the subway ride, when you determine without doubt that your fourth-grader has lice. The teeny pale eggs, they could be dandruff, but they’re not; ugh, dozens of them, everywhere, clinging to the silky hairs, and all you can think
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Christine Quinn Got a Raw Deal From Voters — Because She’s a Woman
What did Christine Quinn do to deserve her lousy third-place finish Tuesday night in the New York Democratic mayoral primary? And is there any way to answer that question without pointing to her gender? Quinn was a capable candidate who spent the whole spring and summer as the all-but-anointed front-runner, enjoyed the support of much
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The Turn-On Switch: Fetish Theory, Post-Freud
Eliot Spitzer, who hopes to be New York City’s next comptroller, likes to screw with his socks on—calf-length black hose, the atavistic shadow of sock garters visible in the mind’s eye. That Spitzer paid for sex is not actually all that interesting. That he brought his nerdish Dudley Do-Right public persona to bed with him
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Diagnosing Anthony Weiner: Sick or Just Plain Stupid?
Is Anthony Weiner — as Andrew Sullivan argued this week — a healthy, red-blooded American male, with a normal desire to play digital porn star in his private time? (“Would you let me hold your hair while you gagged on my cock?” he wrote in one of the sexts most recently revealed.) Or does he
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Gray Pride: Natural and Incontrovertibly Feminine
“I want to tell you something, and it’s going to make you mad.” It was my mother on the line. Moments before, I had been cheerfully ensconced in my sunny cubicle at the Wall Street Journal, where I worked as a reporter, but the sight of my childhood number flashing on the screen caused —