Marriage is Weakening in America

I just read an interesting report put out by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. Each year, they release a State of the Union about the health of marriage in the United States. While the won’t release on for 2008 until the year is over, I thought it might be interesting to discuss the findings for 2007. David Popenoe wrote the essay for 2007’s report. In it, he talks about how the U.S. is following the trends of European nations toward nonmarriage. There is a continuing cultural shift away from traditional marriage as the primary social institute of family … Continue reading

Don Imus Returns to Radio

For those of you who don’t know, Don Imus is back on the radio. His return comes eight months after his racially charged on-air remark about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team (he called them “nappy-headed hos”) got him fired from CBS Radio and MSNBC. Critics lambasted him; he apologized, laid low for a few months and then lo and behold was hired by Citadel Broadcasting and is now right back where he started. Only now he’s got a few new friends—young black cast members. Do you see where I’m going with this? Imus returned to the airwaves with a … Continue reading