Norah Vincent was a journalist, author, and cultural critic who contributed essays and cultural commentary to The Weekly Standard in the late 1990s. She is best known for her 2006 book *Self-Made Man*, in which she lived disguised as a man for eighteen months. Her pieces for the magazine covered literature, theater, and cultural topics.
The name of the British novelist Barry Unsworth rings only a vague bell for American readers. But it should ring louder. He won England's Booker Prize in 1992 for Sacred Hunger, a work of fiction that deserved high literary honors. And his 1988 Sugar and Rum, which has just been published here in…
"Doctor Laura" -- Laura Schlessinger, Ph.D. -- has something like twenty million listeners in America, and she is, as Larry King dubbed her, "the hottest thing in radio." The ratings for her call-in, psychological-advice program are equal to Rush Limbaugh's and nearly triple Howard Stern's.
It's one thing to shake a moralizing finger at the world and say, "Be good." It's quite another to show that virtue is its own reward. You can ask for adherence to traditional values simply because they're traditional, or you can show that virtue is right because it works. As C. S. Lewis once…
Don't let the pretentious, Freudian title fool you. Erica Jong's What Do Women Want? isn't a manifesto. It's not even much of a polemic. The latest foray into non-fiction by the author of the bestselling 1973 novel Fear of Flying is petty egotism and self-congratulation masquerading as cultural…
Carolyn Graglia is right to take on feminism: It bred its share of extremists, and it must shoulder part of the blame for the demise of the family. She is also right to defend domesticity: American society has relegated it to second-class status, forgetting its true meaning and value. But there are…
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