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Experiments in Matrimony

Amy L. Wax

Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage by stephen macedo princeton, 320 pages, $29.95 Before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the law of...

Solving the Poor

Amy L. Wax

Our Kids:The American Dream in Crisisby robert d. putnamsimon & schuster, 400 pages, $28 In a recent article in the New York Review of Books on the television and...

On Libertines

Amy L. Wax

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty? by leigh ann wheeler? oxford, 352 pages, $34.95 n The 2013 Oscar ceremony, says Ross Douthat, revealed “the movie business’s essential schizophrenia, which...

From the December First Things: โ€œJust Kiddingโ€

Amy L. Wax

Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate by Christine Overall MIT, 272 pages, $27.95 This book, like my three children, frequently gave me a headache. Just as I was oblivious...

Just Kidding

Amy L. Wax

Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate by Christine Overall MIT, 272 pages, $27.95 This book, like my three children, frequently gave me a headache. Just as I was oblivious...