The Thought Leader

David Brooks has a great snark on the life cycle of the career intellectual in today's world, which I think will bear revisiting through the years as a classic essay.

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Of Daughters and Politics

A new study shows that having daughters is more likely to turn you into a conservative Republican. I guess that means they are also probably less likely to support free condoms at school. Others, by extension, I suppose, are more likely to accept the principle that 'boys will be boys'. And I guess rabbits are for vegetarianism.

[Source: Pew Research Center]