Peter Wood is an anthropologist and president of the National Association of Scholars. He is a widely published author and commentator on higher education, culture, and intellectual life in America. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics spanning literature, gender, and cultural criticism.
The undergraduate course "Men in Literature" was taught eight times from 2005 to 2015 at Springfield College in Massachusetts. It drew healthy enrollments and was reviewed favorably by a large majority of the students who took it. In 2010, the course was formally approved by the college curriculum…
Attraction. Pleasure. Attachment. Reproduction. Fulfillment. What is the meaning of sex? The answer lies somewhere in the way we integrate the biological imperatives with the emotional and experiential realities. I’m not going to improve on that answer in the next few pages, but I’ll complicate it…
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