Unca Darrell

OCTOBER 18 / Basic Training: The Protestant Work Ethic

SNIPS FROM a brilliant essay: Steven Malanga, "Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic?" City Journal, Summer 2009 (emphasis added, reparagraphed):

The genius of America in the early nineteenth century, Tocqueville thought . . .

OCTOBER 8 / Whatever this is . . .

. . . it ain't an apology:

SEPTEMBER 29 / Another grand social experiment

TO THE GROWING list of perverse social experiments, add this:

JULY 20 / Marriage: a good investment

[MARITAL] BREAKDOWN is not rampant across the land. It is concentrated among low-income and black couples. Americans seen to have a lot of trouble grasping this fact . . . .

JUNE 10 / Soundtrack for 42 years

 

A, weh, uh, weh, uh, well,

The little things you say and do

Make me want to be with you.

Rave on, it's a crazy feelin',

And I know it's got me reelin',

when you say, "I love you."

Rave on.

JUNE 10 / Forty-two years, as if yesterday

MY SWEET Diana and I have  been blessed with forty-two years of marriage. Last year's celebratory post is eternally true.

JUNE 9 / Supply and demand at work in China's marriage market

IF DEMOGRAPHY is destiny, it is the destiny of young men in China to be very, very lonely. The one-child policy plus gender-specific abortion -- a curiously neutral label for scraping little girls out of wombs -- equals China with a reported surplus of 32 million men under the age of 30. 

MARCH 26 / A birthday

DAVID Edgar Hancock was born on March 26, 1970. Here  is something I wrote about him nine years ago.

MARCH 18 / The great American social experiment

BIRTHS to unwed mothers are up to 40 percent.

What kind of society will we have a generation hence?

MARCH 2 / "Back atcha, Mr. Holder": Stuart Taylor edition

WANT TO SEE what a conversation on race really looks like? Then click through to Stuart Taylor, Jr.'s, response to AG Eric Holder's race-baiting jeremiad of early February. Samples: