Easily the strangest reporting experience of my life, but for @Slate, I attempted to make sense of the furor that met Matt & Abby Howard last year, when it seemed they’d left their kids sleeping in a cruise cabin while eating dinner & monitoring the kids via Facetime.
The problem with the whole “women won’t marry lower status men” narrative is that, increasingly, American women are doing exactly that. My latest for @TheAtlantic, on the rise of women who are "marrying down."
https://t.co/yJbIbeQGIJ
@Philly_Mays AWL living in Europe (and currently in Japan) occasionally get frustrated there's no pod, then realize you're probably actively working on it. Keep up the good work. #MaxAppreciation
I wrote about the rise of rough sex for @theatlantic. My take: it's not that sexual liberation backfired, but that it was never really possible in the first place.
https://t.co/6nEQ8fucuy
"Perhaps smartphones are not a diversion from a track record of stepping up to make the world safe for kids, but the continuation of a tendency to allow technology that conveniences adults to make public life hostile to children."
@stephmurrayyyy
https://t.co/HeoQrnJ8pt
For @thedispatch, I reviewed @JonHaidt's new book, in which he convincingly argues that the “great rewiring of childhood” is real and urgent. I’m just not sure he ever manages to reckon with its full scope or implications.
https://t.co/nAA5cAoD1r
For @TheAtlantic, I did a little progress report on the long-hyped rise of robots in eldercare. Even in Japan, the revolution has been slow going. Why? It turns out that existing robots may actually exacerbate the problems they are intended to solve.
https://t.co/wXocAxBsgi
Years ago, a chance encounter with an Australian parent (& fellow expat) forced me to consider what seemed like a silly question: is America a good place to raise kids? My latest for @TheAtlantic is a (lengthy but earnest) attempt to answer that question.
https://t.co/jHyN0zHaYf
@ESPNFantasy why won't you let me change my logo to one on the web? Have been trying for hours and no picture actually works. Need to update mine as quickly as possible