Penna Dexter The New York Times recently published an opinion piece about America’s boy crisis. It’s by social scientist Richard Reeves and Harvard political scientist and author of Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam. Here’s their summary of the problem: “Since 2010, suicide rates among young men have risen by a third — they are now higher than they are among middle…
Read NowPenna Dexter Psychoanalyst Erica Komisar is a therapist to families, and especially children, in private practice in New York City. Her periodic columns for The Wall Street Journal on childrearing are treasures. I first noticed the one on why moms should prioritize being home with their babies for their first three years. This practical wisdom almost goes without saying. Some…
Read NowPenna Dexter In heartfelt remarks broadcast from her late husband Charlie’s radio studio, just two days after he was murdered — actually, martyred — Erika Kirk was adamant. The movement among young people which Charlie built through Turning Point USA, the organization he founded, will only grow stronger. She encouraged people to join and become active in changing the nation….
Read NowPenna Dexter There were many proclamations of faith in God and Jesus Christ from the podium at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Watching the broadcast of the memorial for Charlie Kirk, I didn’t get the sense that government leaders were pandering. To me, it seemed, instead, that many had shaken off the inner restraint they normally have when speaking…
Read NowPenna Dexter It only takes a few minutes. Just watch an interaction between Charlie Kirk and a college student. You’ll learn some good arguments on an important cultural issue. And you’ll get a lesson in civil discourse done with excellence, mercy and grace. Commentator, Rod Dreher wrote of the late Charlie Kirk: “True, he could throw some rhetorical punches,…
Read NowPenna Dexter The Taylor Swift–Travis Kelce engagement has some people wondering: Will marriage by the world’s most famous millennial feminist accelerate the recent, modest reversal of the decline in marriage rates? The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman wrote recently of a marriage “comeback.” He cites data that “suggests that the decades-long decline in the proportion of Americans who are married…
Read NowPenna Dexter To address what they see as the problem of social inequities between students, education bureaucrats have implemented “reforms” in grading practices aimed at promoting ”equity” in student outcomes. In a new survey conducted by the Thomas Fordham Institute, an education-policy think tank, 52 percent of teachers said their school or district had adopted at least one of these…
Read NowPenna Dexter The year was 1977. I was a baby Christian living in a suburb of Los Angeles. I volunteered to man the book table at an event at our church put on by a new organization: Focus on the Family. Before the program even started, attendees were stopping at my table, buying books with titles like DARE TO DISCPLINE,…
Read NowPenna Dexter The frontrunner in the New York mayoral race, has a lot of bad ideas. Soon after Zohan Mamdani won the Democratic primary, John Catsimatidis, owner of New York City’s 2 oldest and largest independent supermarket chains, wrote an op ed for the Wall Street Journal. In it, he warns about what is probably the worst of the candidate’s…
Read NowPenna Dexter The fertility rate in the United States just hit 1.6 children per woman, an all time low. The replacement rate — the level that will keep the population stable — is 2.1 children per woman in the U.S. and 2.25 globally. Drop below 2 and depopulation begins. Two economists at the University of Texas, Austin outline the factors…
Read NowPenna Dexter Do you love to read books — but don’t do it enough? That’s me. The most interesting people in my life are those who read a lot of books. Why do I not read as many books as I’d like? Why do I have a stack of them on my bedside table that never seems to get shorter….
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