Hanna Rosin

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive. ”

The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick. ”

Pop culture is like our subconscious. ”

Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms. ”

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves. ”

We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true. ”

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues. ”

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams. ”

You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists. ”

For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects. ”