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...high birth rate. Certainly, some consequences of the one-child policy are repellent from a First-World perspective, but emotions and poorly thought-through conclusions make little contribution to informed debate. Kurlantzick implicitly contradicts himself, foreseeing "a [future] severe labor shortage" while reminding us that in the past, "unequal sex ratios, which left men idle, contributed to armed rebellion." The government's decision to relax the one-child rule for those who lost children in the recent earthquake is sensible and just, however, and suggests that China's rulers are gradually becoming more sensitive to human-rights issues. John Farquhar...
...marriage does have one great advantage that explains why most men--despite evolutionary impulses toward multiple sex partners--get hitched: according to the National Sex Survey, married people have better sex lives. Marriage creates solidity and predictability around sex, and for all the excitement of the unknown, most of us (Eliot Spitzer notwithstanding) are happier with a single sex partner...
Those joyous images of June 16, as crowds of couples entered into the first legal same-sex marriages in California, showed us the simple dignity that accrues from equality. No matter that activists had carefully orchestrated many of the photo ops. Marriage equality took too many years, and California voters could still snatch it back in an initiative this fall. For now, America is a nation where all couples, gay and straight, can wed, even if the gay ones have to make a trip to California to do so. (Or move to Massachusetts...
Opponents of same-sex unions used some of these points to justify marriage inequality. They were wrong. But now a great sociological experiment begins: Will marriage change gay people or will gay people change marriage...
...boggled by Clinton, impressed and appalled by him. The only real differences we had in 30 years of friendship were over his treatment of both Clintons, which I thought was occasionally too sharp--and had its roots, I believed, in the strict lessons about sex and probity he'd learned from the nuns (which he often joked about). Our last conversation, sadly, was an argument over that...