If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

That's not a convincing argument. Public sector jobs are cyclical. Teachers get fired when money is tight, then rehired when things get better. Manufacturing jobs, on the other hand, aren't coming back. They're relics of a past age.

Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.