What happened to illegitimacy? Births outside marriage now the norm
Yesterday’s New York Times led with a remarkable statistic: for the first time, a majority of women under 30 who give birth are unmarried.
As the Times reports:
Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled ...
With focus on lame Republicans, Obama’s prospects have improved
The latest New York Times/CBS News pollconfirms a recent trend since the end of last year: President Obama’s political standing is improving.
Obama’s job approval rating is now 50 percent, ...
This week’s articles of note
“The future of history: can liberal democracy survive the decline of the middle class?” Foreign Affairs, by Francis Fukuyama
“Billionaire Peter Thiel is worried about America’s future,” Newsweek, by Niall Ferguson
“California’s demographic revolution,” City Journal, by Heather MacDonald
“The factory jobs aren’t coming back,” Salon, by Robert Reich
Why the contraception controversy matters
American liberals are wrong: Obama’s contraception rule is a violation of important religious liberties.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Contraception and religious liberty: a debate liberals don’t want to have
Liberals who support the Obama administration’s rule that requires insurance plans operated by Catholic-affiliated institutions, such as universities and hospitals, to offer contraception generally think that the criticisms raised by Catholic bishops, Republican politicians and other are driven by narrow political concerns, rather than the principle of religious freedom. They ...
Whitney Houston, 1963-2012
How did she hit that note (at 3:38)? What an amazing voice
This week’s articles of note
“In birth control debate, religious beliefs don’t trump rights,” The Atlantic, by Wendy Kaminer
“Obama, explained,” The Atlantic, by James Fallows
“Sex, singles and the presidency,” Forbes, by Joel Kotkin
“Beyond blue part three: the power of infostructure,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead
“Poisoned politics of Keystone ...
The corruption of American politics
From Occupy to the Tea Party, the obsession with corruption is far more damaging to democracy than politicians’ alleged shady dealings.
Read my review of Throw Them All Out, by Peter Schweizer, and Republic, Lost, by ...
This week’s articles of note
“The Obama memos,” The New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza
“Making it in America,” The Atlantic, by Adam Davidson
“Mega-man: the fast, fabulous, fraudulent life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom,” Ars Technica, by Sean Gallagher
“How much is an astronaut’s life worth?” Reason, by Adam Zubrin
“Do the classics have a ...
A political fiasco of historic proportions
Obama is ailing, yet the bunch of political misfits posing as Republican presidential candidates can’t make any mileage from that.
Read my spiked article in full here.
ABOUT SEAN COLLINS
I write about American current affairs for Spiked, the online magazine. I am a native New Yorker, and I divide my time between New York City and upstate New York.
In addition to articles for Spiked, The Australian and other publications, I contributed an essay, "BDS: Demonizing Israel, Destroying Free Speech," for the book Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus (2016). I also wrote a chapter on New York City's economy for the book London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital? (2012).
My writings have been cited in American Conservative, Arts & Letters Daily, the Financial Times, Fox News, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, and the Times of London, among other media.
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