In Praise of Having Humble First Jobs

In Praise of Having Humble First Jobs

By Simon C.Y. Wong  |  Like many parents, I am troubled by the growing fixation with careers. We seem to be putting young people on the career treadmill at an earlier and earlier age. Choosing extracurricular activities, summer jobs, and even preschool is increasingly...
Cohabiting: A Poor Substitute for Marriage

Cohabiting: A Poor Substitute for Marriage

By Eric Metaxas | The Downside of Cohabiting Twelve years ago, half of the twenty-somethings surveyed by the National Marriage Project agreed with the statement “You would only marry someone if he or she agreed to live together with you first, so that you could find...
Current Debate: Arts Practical/Arts Liberal

Current Debate: Arts Practical/Arts Liberal

By James Tonkowich | A dear friend’s daughter just graduated from a small, highly respected liberal arts college with her Bachelor of Arts in psychology “with all the honors, rights, and privileges to that degree appertaining.” What precisely those honors, rights and...
Who Came Along and Ruined the Humanities?

Who Came Along and Ruined the Humanities?

By Lee Siegel | Fewer and fewer undergraduates are majoring in the humanities, and critic Lee Siegel couldn’t be happier. As he tells WSJ’s Gary Rosen, great poetry and novels are meant to be experienced in private and alone, away from the competitive pressures of the...