Jul 14, 2022 | Life and Culture
It is not good for us to be alone, a small study in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry found among a group of 100 older adults. Measuring how one’s social life influences one’s sense of purpose in life, the researchers asked participants to rate...
Jul 7, 2022 | Life and Culture
Many are expressing their fear and anger following the decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. University students have been particularly vocal about their distrust of the Supreme Court, their anger at institutions for upholding “patriarchy,” and their worries...
Jun 30, 2022 | Life and Culture
The New York Times’ Elaine Blair recently lauded a children’s sex education trilogy written by Cory Silverberg, a sex educator and the owner of a “sex-positive sex shop” in Toronto, Canada. Silverberg, the son of a sex therapist who...
Jun 23, 2022 | Masculinity
As it happens each year, this Father’s Day occasioned appreciation for fathers, as well as laments of fatherlessness. Various outlets reiterated the benefits of father involvement for boys, citing well-known research that boys with fathers enjoy more positive...
Jun 16, 2022 | Femininity
The girlboss has had her reign, and today she is usurped by a new queen: the bimbo. So claims a New York Times opinion essay, which catapulted the relatively obscure profile of various self-proclaimed “Bimbos of TikTok” into the national spotlight. These...
