Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

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

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

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

Men aren't able to find jobs anymore, and they're withdrawing from society, essentially creating a matriarchy. For the upper social classes, marriage is still a successful model, but for poorer people it's not.

It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play - in the way they act in public, and in the way they have conquered areas of the working world that were until recently considered a man's domain.