Hope Stumbles Eternal: “Frances Ha”

May 25, 2013 By

The director of The Squid and the Whale made a movie with the star of Damsels in Distress, and it’s about friendship between women, forgiveness, and coming to terms with your life. Ordinarily this is the kind of sentence I end with, “…and then I woke up.” But no! Frances Ha is real, it’s in [...]

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“The End of Premarital Sex”

January 29, 2013 By

The next installment in my marriage-and-family books series for Acculturated.

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“Sex in the Meritocracy”: Helen Rittelmeyer

January 19, 2013 By

w/a really good piece: I rather think Yale is plagued by an excess of moral purpose—that purpose being the pursuit of perfection, however perversely defined. Its students are not relativists; they are not even radicals. They are ordinary modern liberals, with all the earnestness and all the moral blind spots the term implies. Concepts like [...]

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“How to Write About Sex”

July 5, 2012 By

this was the part which struck me: These insights extended to matters of the heart. A couple of years ago, after dating a mutual acquaintance of ours had left me feeling bruised and baffled, I sought Sister’s advice. After hearing my story, she frowned slightly and asked, “Are you sure ________ is even capable of [...]

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