Obsession with Carats Nothing speaks subjugation like a man on bended knee, sliding a diamond engagement ring on the finger of his new fiancée. Yet, countless men engage in this emasculating, enslaving ritual every day. When asked why he felt compelled to prostrate himself while pledging to his ...

On the eve of Barack Obama’s New New Deal, a series of compelling photographs illustrates the divide between repair and renewal, despair and hope. (link) As a young man, Timo Stammberger would travel Berlin’s subways—on foot—tagging the tunnel walls. “My personal engagement was through gra...

After a ten-day trial before Judge Patti B. Saris, Jeffrey Shields of Bath, Maine, was civilly committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a sexually dangerous person, according to a report sent to the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s Child Protection Program. Shield...

President Obama has made a major mistake and put America’s families at risk by selecting David Ogden to become Deputy Attorney General, says Fidelis, a pro-family organization. “David Ogden is a hired gun from Playboy and the ACLU. He can’t run from his long record of opposing comm...

Culture-Splitting Battle Quick … name one person, in all of world history, born as the result of a homosexual union. You can’t. It’s biologically impossible. Yet, we are seeing a neverending, culture-splitting battle to equate homosexual unions with those between men and women. No ...

The Definition of Manhood Mention the word feminine; most people understand it instantly. Jessica Alba, Beyoncé, and Scarlett Johansson come to mind. Now, try masculine. Puzzled? Stymied? That’s because the definition of manhood is in constant flux and dilution, as men have allowed misandrist...

Marriage-absence is the greatest social and economic problem we face.  We often think of this problem in terms of its effects: father-absence, child support problems, tactical child or spousal abuse allegations, or a failure of religion. There are libraries of misdirected books essentially covering...

Rubber Screwdriver The nonstop TV commercials touting cures for erectile dysfunction paint a dismal picture of widespread male inadequacy. It’s as though every handyman in America is trying to fix his wife’s pipes with a rubber screwdriver. Nonsense. According to the National Institutes ...

By embracing the city’s industrial past—reclaiming landfills, remediating brownfields, developing neglected waterfronts—James Corner has helped reinvent the field of landscape architecture. (MetropolisMag.com) (photo by Alessandra Petlin) As a 20-year-old intern in the London office of Richard...

Across the country the issue of “gay marriage� is being debated, examined, voted on and legislated. Groups, both pro and con, have taken to the streets from Massachusetts and Connecticut to both ends of California to express their support and opposition to legislating finality to this issue. Whi...