On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.

We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.

What I've found is that there is an enormous shift taking place in our society. Suddenly there are all young women who are better educated and earning more money than men their age. When young couples today decide to marry, they have very different expectations of one another than their parents did. And there's even been change at the very top of the career ladder. People tend to underestimate that.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.