Critical shopping

I might like this book, "The Meaning of Sunglasses." Think she cites to Barthes or Foucault?

I do, do me

Ya gotta love Times Styles section. Trashy bridal couture, here.

want

stem dress

Classics of modern conservatism

should you be wondering, here.

Oh WOW

Amazing. Abandoned book depository in Detroit.

Sex tourism

From Marginal Revolution, here.

Ethical analogies to house cleaners.

Strawberries in February

I think he said it was okay. From the New Yorker.

Demographic Winter

Here.

A skeptical take, from Reason magazine, here. (People aren't having kids because they don't like them.)

Question: does the global downturn in birthrates call the premises of evolutionary psychology into question? It's said that in some countries 1 in 3 women is childless---how to explain this? Is it that the instincts are to mate and to nurture, rather than to reproduce per se? Dunno.

Bens Brother Stuttering Video Take 1

Here's a youtube video for the song---weird video, sorry, I couldn't find anything better. You can get an idea of the song, though.

Crazy in love

with Kay Hymowitz.

Interview with Front Page magazine.

Latest of the many great City Journal pieces, this one a companion to "New Girl Order" on the "child-man".

Her book, on marriage and class. And another one on post-modern parenting.

Love her, want her, want to be her.

Fetal Pain

They feel it. In the NYT, here.

Biotech and Abortion

From Bill Saletan, this time in the NYT, here.

A bit disappointing, because I thought Saletan got it. He's right that biotech poses grave problems for anti-abortion, but it also poses grave--even disastrous--problems for pro-abortion.

Consumption Inequality

From the NYT, here.