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Jon Birger to Women: Make Your Move

Apr 22, 2021

In 2015, Jon Birger captured the attention of newspapers, women’s magazines, and college publications with his book Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game. Using economics, statistics, and psychology, Birger shows how a skewed sex ratio in American society has put college-educated women at a disadvantage as they look for a long-term partner. “There have been multiple studies showing that college-educated Americans are increasingly unlikely to marry someone lacking a college degree,” Birger noted in an interview with Glamour Magazine. Moreover, the influence of hookup culture over people’s long-term preferences spells frustration for those actively seeking serious partners and a loss of time for those who don’t realize they desire a deeper commitment.

Couples and Groups

Apr 15, 2021

The beginning of a new relationship indicates a couple’s desire to enter into an exclusive bond with one another apart from the group. Among the questions of how to integrate individuals’ lives and interests with each other comes the question of how to integrate the couple with the community. How this is accomplished has varied according to time, place, and custom.

Take Stock of Your Friendships

Apr 8, 2021

Friendship, and our need for it, is as ancient as humanity itself. The ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, written sometime between 2100 and 1200 BC, poignantly illustrates how love in friendship even transcends death. Though the gods condemn Enkidu to death in retaliation for killing the Bull of Heaven, his loss spurs Gilgamesh on the perilous journey to discovering eternal life. The poem illustrates the power of friendship to transform one’s very person, and set one on the road to a life previously unimaginable. In his classic work The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis describes true friendship as “unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself.”

Aaron Renn to Men: Date Local

Apr 1, 2021

Aaron Renn is an urban analyst who has written for a number of publications, including the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. But he is also passionate about helping men become their best at time when the world is “ambivalent, at best” about masculinity. As a Christian, he is concerned to find that churches in America rarely if ever offer meaningful advice and formation to men on how to be men. To meet this need, he runs a blog called The Masculinist, along with a podcast where he discusses masculinity, culture, politics, and Christianity.

Struggles of the Single Life

Mar 25, 2021

This past weekend, Melanie Notkin of the New York Post chronicled the dating “hellscape” that New York City has become since the start of the pandemic last year. Masks, social distancing, curfews, and other restrictions have made it nearly impossible to meet new people, let alone meet friends and acquaintances in person. While many singles have turned to online dating, others worry that they have lost “a full year of finding love and marriage,” as one 30-year-old Brooklyn woman lamented. In a city where about 56% of its residents are singles, it is frustrating to think that a large portion are struggling to find people to date. However devastating the pandemic has been, it is not the only reason dating in 2020 was so challenging.

The Rise of Workism

Mar 18, 2021

Americans are known for having longer work hours than their Western European contemporaries. Numerous explanations have been offered and debated – from Europe’s “culture of leisure” and differing tax rates between the U.S. and Europe to European market regulations pushed by labor unions. Yet, the idea that America is a nation of “workaholics” seems to have been popularized in the early-to-mid 1960’s, when the word “workaholic” rose in usage dramatically even prior to the divergence between the U.S. workday and that of many European nations. By the mid-1960’s, with second wave feminism in full swing and over 2 million women on the pill, the professional workforce was expanding rapidly in size and competition. With more institutions open to women’s attendance, colleges increased their enrollment in anticipation of the next generation’s career pursuits.

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