Thoughts, Insights, and Ideas

Creator	Title/Description	Recommenders
Caitlin Flanagan	How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement Dispatches from the nanny wars	The Atlantic Monthly Web Maven Robert Winter
James Parker	How Heavy Metal Is Keeping Us Sane Dark and disturbing, the music is honest about human nature	The Atlantic Monthly Amy Matthews
Caitlin Flanagan	Sex and the Married Man How Cosmopolitan's Helen Gurley Brown inspired a generation of home-wreckers, and brought down John Edwards	The Atlantic Monthly Web Maven Robert Winter
Robert Winter	Today's celebrity system represents a potent form of secular mythology The 'world on the other side of the screen' has become our modern-day Olympus--and its inhabitants, our gods and heroes	Amy Matthews
Harvey Cox	The Market as God A theologian finds surprising similarities between his own field and what's said about markets these days. (Note: Since this article is from 1999, some of the 'current' references are out of date, but the central thesis hasn't lost any force since the day it was written.)	The Atlantic Monthly Web Maven Robert Winter
Caitlin Flanagan	The Ivy Delusion The real reason the good mothers are so rattled by "Tiger Mom" Amy Chua	The Atlantic Monthly Web Maven Robert Winter
Natasha Vargas-Cooper	Hard Core Will Internet porn force us to be more honest about our inner natures?	The Atlantic Monthly Amy Matthews
Caitlin Flanagan	What Girls Want On vampire stories and the complexities of female adolescent desire.	The Atlantic Monthly Web Maven Robert Winter
Robert Winter	The New Tribalism Tribalism hasn't died in the modern world; it's just taken new forms	Bart Hendrickson
Adam Winkler	The Secret History of Guns The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and the NRA have all worked to control guns, while today's open carry movement can trace its roots back to the Black Panthers	The Atlantic Monthly Robert Winter Jane Fields