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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by meghan daum picador, 288 pages, $26 The Dadly Virtues: Adventures from the Worst Job...

The New Class Conflict by joel kotkin telos, 230 pages, $29.95 About five years after we graduated from college a friend called me from Philadelphia. She had spent some...

A few weeks ago, I found myself speaking about interfaith marriage at a Reform synagogue in a wealthy suburb of New York. I’ve given many of these talks since the...

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon Scribner, 976 pages, $37.50 At the most superficial level, raising children is about getting to...

The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Katherine S. Newman Beacon, 288 pages, $25.95 Teenagers are losing interest in cars. According...

Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty by Lisa A. Keister Cambridge, 254 pages, $27.99 In the age of Occupy Wall Street, remarking on American inequality...

Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood by Christian Smith, with Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson, and Patricia Snell Herzog Oxford, 296 pages, $27.95 A few years ago,...

The investiture of a university president—that is, the ceremony in which the authority and symbols of that office are first conferred—is a celebratory occasion, but it must also be...

Quality with Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions by robert benne eerdmans, 217 pages, $16.88 The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have recently...