How Our Age’s Melancholy Stems From Loving Ourselves Too Much
Today’s era of despair, ennui, and selfishness can find remedies within ageless wisdom that the church reformer Martin Luther offered to his depressed friend 500 years ago.
Lizzo Illuminates The Perils Of Millennial Self-Love And Singleness
As she finally makes her well-deserved entree into the mainstream, Lizzo is revealing the identity of her soulmate. It’s Lizzo.
Are Your Pretend Allergies And Faddish Diet Preferences Selfish?
If it’s that bad for a world-class chef, just consider what a strain such demands can be on ordinary home chefs who find unforseen — and completely unnecessary — diet obstacles among guests.
Why Demanding Equality In All Things Makes Us Narcissists
The individual, many believe, must be cared for in all things despite the cost to others (a narcissistic notion)—all in the name of equality.
I Bake New Neighbors Bread To Welcome Them, And They Never Say Hello to Me Again
I am glad I am this old so I don’t have to live in this cold, uncaring world for 50 more years. Many Americans appear to have become shallow, immoral, intolerant, and hateful.
12 Ways Pornography Just Doesn’t Show Enough
Pornography doesn’t go far enough to promote genuine love, which we can see primarily in three areas: conjugal love, relationships, and privacy.
How To Handle People Who Betray You
Betrayal is an inversion of love, and perhaps its greatest perversion. What, then, to do with a traitor? What he will not do for you.
Baby Haters Use Global Warming To Justify Their Selfishness
The only compelling reason to embrace the doomsdayers’ radical interpretation is that it pairs well with your aversion to sucking the snot of a toddler’s nose.
Let’s Reclaim November For Giving Thanks, Not Greed
Life is short, as the Paris attacks have shown. Use it to do something bigger than whining about minor irritations, as November traditionally reminds us.
Stickers Can’t Prove Religious Kids Are More Selfish
A recent study supposedly shows that nonreligious people’s kids are more willing to share than religious people’s kids are. Not so fast.
A Penny A Day Keeps The Dog Food Entitlement At Bay
Look, dude. A mildly dented dog food can doesn’t give you the right to demand a discount.
Why We Need James Bond
James Bond represents a benevolent and socially acceptable form of self-assertiveness.
A Former Fecundophobe’s Reflections On Fatherhood
I used to dislike children. Now I’m a father, by choice. Here’s what fatherhood means to me.
Only Children’s Selfishness Isn’t Their Fault
Only children get the reputation for conceit, but excessive conceit is really the hallmark of their parents. And the damage they are doing to America is about to peak.
Kardashian Culture: ‘Selfishness’ Without a Self
Kim Kardashian’s new book of “selfies” isn’t evidence of too much self, but of too little.
Don’t Wait For Your Wedding To Buy A KitchenAid—And Other Ways To Embrace Adulthood
To help Millennials embrace adulthood, perhaps it’s time to give them ways they can do that even if they’re not married or financially comfortable.
Two Big Things Feminism Gets Wrong
It’s time for feminism to stop being oversensitive to potential victimization and start thinking about how women can help make the world better.
On Our Anniversary, Ten Things I’ve Learned In Ten Years Of Marriage
On our wedding anniversary, I consider some lessons marriage has taught me. A few are counter-cultural; some are surprisingly not.
Taylor Swift’s New Single Will Make You a Worse Person
A world where everyone takes Taylor Swift’s advice and plugs his ears to all criticism is a world where being rotten person bears a much smaller social cost.