Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpu….

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we migh….

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and sub….

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritu….

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, l….

Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectatio….

a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter ….

I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it ….

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 ….

There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to ….

the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the beautiful house and car, if only you….

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we lea….

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want the….

Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.….

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was co….

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system..

When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently - then sh….

As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary….

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it..

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money..

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life..