Kay S. Hymowitz [89 titles]

1. Getting Dads Back on the Job
   Government should stop discouraging low-income fathers from working.
   8 September 2009
2. Burying the Lead
   The New York Times runs a piece on Hispanic poverty dressed up in happy talk.
   29 May 2009
3. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Businesswoman
   The design economy has turned bohemian outsiders into a new marketplace elite.
   Spring 2009
4. A Womb Not of One’s Own
   Evidently I wasn’t the only one who nearly choked on her Sunday morning pancakes reading Alex Kuczynski’s article “Her Body, My Baby” in the New York Times Magazine in November.
   Winter 2009
5. The Children’s Hour
   Can Geoffrey Canada’s brilliant education experiment in Harlem be extended nationally?
   14 January 2009
6. Love in the Time of Darwinism
   A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive
   Autumn 2008
7. Red-State Feminism
   Beware of underestimating Palinsanity.
   8 September 2008
8. Gloucester Girls Gone Wild
   Why they did it
   23 June 2008
9. Sex on a Sugar High
   The Sex and the City movie, sweeter than its TV inspiration
   28 May 2008
10. May 1968: 40 Years Later
    Six City Journal authors recall a spring that shook the world.
    Spring 2008
11. Sexism Isn’t Holding Hillary Back
    If anything, being a woman is helping her.
    28 April 2008
12. Child-Man in the Promised Land
    Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood.
    Winter 2008
13. Psychoanalyzing the Victim
    September 11 spawned neurotic American chauvinism, claims Susan Faludi.
    26 October 2007
14. The New Girl Order
    The Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle is showing up in unexpected places, with unintended consequences.
    Autumn 2007
15. Why We Ignore Madmen
    Privacy and antidiscrimination laws have meant paralysis in the face of the scarily insane.
    21 April 2007
16. The Brooklyn Museum Strikes Again
    Confusing hucksterism and art
    3 April 2007
17. The Incredible Shrinking Father
    Artificial insemination begets children without paternity, with troubling cultural and legal consequences.
    Spring 2007
18. The New Black Realism
    A new generation sees opportunity in America—and seizes it.
    Winter 2007
19. The Trash Princess
    Why Americans love to hate Paris Hilton
    Autumn 2006
20. Desperate Grandmas
    Now sexagenarians, narcissistic feminists are still seeking the Best Sex Ever.
    Summer 2006
21. The Mommy-Wars Insurgency
    Essayist Caitlin Flanagan has enraged the feminists.
    9 May 2006
22. How Welfare Reform Worked
    Though successful beyond anyone’s wildest dreams, welfare reform left key problems unsolved.
    Spring 2006
23. Marriage and Caste
    America’s chief source of inequality? The Marriage Gap.
    Winter 2006
24. The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies
    Rejecting the Moynihan report caused untold, needless misery.
    Summer 2005
25. Bill Cosby Is Right
    And trendy prof Michael Eric Dyson is betraying the black poor.
    Summer 2005
26. What’s Holding Black Kids Back?
    Bill Cosby is right: the problem is the parents.
    Spring 2005
27. Maureen, Queen of Mean
    For Maureen Dowd, it’s still high school.
    15 March 2005
28. Capitalists on Steroids
    Though exaggerated, shows like The Apprentice reflect America’s can-do response to globalism’s competitive challenge.
    Winter 2005
29. Dads in the ‘Hood
    Black America starts facing up to the tragedy of the Accidental Father.
    Autumn 2004
30. I Wed Thee, and Thee, and Thee
    If homosexual marriage, then polygamy?
    Autumn 2004
31. Gay Marriage vs. American Marriage
    The gay advocates’ civil rights argument forgets what the Founders thought marriage is for.
    Summer 2004
32. It’s Morning After in America
    Here’s why social indicators, dismaying for decades, have turned positive.
    Spring 2004
33. The New Peaceniks
    The foolishness of “peace education”
    Winter 2004
34. Sleeping on Grates?
    Child poverty did not increase during the economic downturn.
    Autumn 2003
35. Scoring on Sex and the City
    Sex and the City has a lot of sex and a lot of city, but it is the latter that ultimately provides more gratification.
    Autumn 2003
36. Lord of the Flies 2003
    A horrific hazing incident at a middle-class high school raises disturbing questions about the values of some teens—and their parents.
    Summer 2003
37. Michael Moore, Humbug
    The Left’s media darling spins a world of falsehood.
    Summer 2003
38. More Good News About Welfare Reform
    Critics warned that welfare reform would throw women and kids into the streets. They were wrong.
    Spring 2003
39. Dying for Love in the Middle East
    CJ reviews Norma Khouri’s Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan.
    14 February 2003
40. Why Feminism is AWOL on Islam
    U.S. feminists should be protesting the brutal oppression of Middle Eastern women. But doing so would reveal how little they have to complain about at home.
    Winter 2003
41. Robos in Paradise
    Aging rockers embrace family values and bourgeois respectability.
    Winter 2003
42. Robos in Paradise
    Aging rockers embrace family values and bourgeois respectability.
    26 November 2002
43. Notes on Camp
    One steamy night last July, while sitting at my desk in Brooklyn, I got a phone call from the head counselor of my daughter’s camp in the Adirondacks.
    Autumn 2002
44. The End of Herstory
    We’re all feminists now. But how come young women won’t call themselves that?
    Summer 2002
45. Fail Me, I Sue
    Get ready for grade inflation by lawsuit.
    Summer 2002
46. U.N. Fairy Tales About Children
    The East-River chatterers should put human rights before children’s rights.
    7 May 2002
47. Maybe It’s Time for Abstinence
    Study shows sex ed and contraception-on-demand make kids less sexually responsible.
    8 April 2002
48. The Weaker Sex?
    Putting to rest the feminist shibboleth that our culture silences girls
    27 February 2002
49. Their Own Talib
    September 11 reminded us of the dangers of religious extremism.
    Winter 2002
50. Keep On Doin’ It
    A new report from sex-ed “experts” makes all the old mistakes.
    Winter 2002
51. Earth to Ivory Tower: Get Real!
    We’ll lose the war on terror if the political and cultural Left succeeds in sapping our resolve.
    Autumn 2001
52. Charity for Whom?
    New York’s social services industry pigs out on charity meant for the families of September 11 victims.
    Autumn 2001
53. Fear and Loathing at the Day-Care Center
    A troubling new government study about day care has sent advocates and feminists into denial. Everyone else should take heed.
    Summer 2001
54. Is the Family Coming Back?
    The 2000 Census says maybe.
    Summer 2001
55. More Columbines?
    Experts say that schools are getting safer. They’re wrong.
    Spring 2001
56. Survivor:The Manhattan Kindergarten
    Two years old already? Time for the young Master of the Universe to start building that resumé for getting into kindergarten.
    Spring 2001
57. It’s Just Sex
    Oral sex is increasing among 12- and 13-year-olds, and advocates propose more failed sex-ed solutions.
    Winter 2001
58. Ecstatic Capitalism’s Brave New Work Ethic
    The new economy, where work merges with play and the office becomes home, has released a powerful flood of energy and creativity. As always, there’s a cost.
    Winter 2001
59. Philadelphia’s Blackboard Jungle
    When regulations keep teachers from disciplining, students run wild.
    Winter 2001
60. Welfare Reform’s Benefit to Kids
    Child advocates predicted reforming welfare would harm kids. They had it exactly wrong.
    Autumn 2000
61. The Children’s Defense Fund: Not Part of the Solution
    Even after welfare reform, the fashionable, much-hyped CDF still doesn’t grasp why there’s so much child misery in the U.S.
    Summer 2000
62. Doing Better Than We Thought
    New research shows that America is still the land of opportunity.
    Summer 2000
63. Who Killed School Discipline?
    Court decisions and federal laws have turned principals into psychobabbling bureaucrats. How can kids respect them?
    Spring 2000
64. The Right Way to Pick a Chancellor
    The innovative head of Chicago’s public schools has some advice for New York City.
    Spring 2000
65. What’s Wrong with the Kids?
    After Columbine, the whole nation— egged on by the press— is asking this question. The answer is disquieting.
    Winter 2000
66. Why Did Ed Rendell Fizzle Out?
    Philadelphia’s high-profile mayor started out with a bang in 1992.
    Autumn 1999
67. Sign of the Times
    The evening I visited Columbine High School, the Rocky Mountain foothills beyond one classroom window were turning a velvety green and black as the summer sun sank behind them.
    Autumn 1999
68. Civil Society Blooms in New Haven
    An unlikely coalition of middle-class volunteers brings help and hope to a down-and-out housing project.
    Summer 1999
69. Sixtiesville
    Hollywood has always been a steadfast partisan in the culture wars, but recently there have been signs of wavering.
    Winter 1999
70. Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen
    As the authority of parents wanes, preteens are falling under the sway of peer groups and marketers. The disquieting result: “hip” and “sexy” ten-year-olds.
    Autumn 1998
71. Slouching Towards Cloning
    The rights revolution that previously brought you homeless people sleeping on sidewalks and the mentally ill babbling on street corners appears poised to triumph with yet another constitutionally protected right: the right to have ourselves cloned.
    Winter 1998
72. Gee, Parent’s Count
    What do children need most? The conclusions of two recent studies might appear to be the sort your grandmother could have told you--but that's why they are important.
    Autumn 1997
73. Day-Care Hype
    'Quality day care' has become the refrain of child advocates in answer to the question, Who's minding the babies?
    Summer 1997
74. Raising Children for an Uncivil Society
    Today’s child-rearing experts believe that children civilize themselves. Should we be surprised by the results?
    Summer 1997
75. Special Ed and the Feds
    An unwritten law of New York City politics has it that all issues eventually boil down to race and poverty.
    Summer 1997
76. Fixing Special Ed?
    In a number of important announcements this fall, New York City Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew has given veteran watchers of 110 Livingston Street real reason to take heart.
    Winter 1997
77. At Last, A Job Program That Works
    Most of Strive’s graduates are still working after two years. The secret: hard skills don’t count; attitute does.
    Winter 1997
78. My Son Hamlet
    Above my desk I keep a cartoon. A young man in Elizabethan dress broods at a Gothic window.
    Autumn 1996
79. Special Ed: Kids Go In, But They Don’t Come Out
    A wrongheaded federal mandate and an all-embracing consent decree have created a costly, Kafkaesque system.
    Summer 1996
80. Regrets on Teen Sex
    Summer 1996
81. J. Crew U.
    Colleges’ glitzy advertising broochures promise a curriculum of boundless variety. And that’s the problem: without a common body of knowledge, too many students are getting an empty education.
    Spring 1996
82. On Sesame Street, It's All Show
    Sure, it’s a revered cultural icon, but Sesame Street teaches all the wrong lessons.
    Autumn 1995
83. The 'L' Word: Love as Taboo
    There’s no shortage of sex in modern life? But love? Today’s culture has made it harder to find, with bad consequences for society.
    Spring 1995
84. There Are No Individuals Here
    Concern for the underclass has prompted a growing body of vivid, finely observed journalistic works about the inner city, including Daniel Coyle's Hardball, Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here, and Leon Dash's series of Washington Post articles about Rosa Lee Cunningham, a drug-dealing mother of eight. This troubles journalist Michael Massing.
    Spring 1995
85. What Ending Welfare Would Do
    Among the welfarereform ideas the House Republican leadership has put forth is a proposal to deny welfare benefits to mothers under 18.
    Winter 1995
86. The Teen Mommy Track
    Everyone has a theory about why teenage girls have babies. What do teens themselves say?
    Autumn 1994
87. Up the Up Staircase
    At Manhattan's Wildcat Academy, the city's most troubled youngsters have a chance to succeed.
    Spring 1994
88. South Bronx Renaissance
    Principal Jeffrey Litt turned around a failing South Bronx elementary school, through a combination of energy, commitment and a rigorous curriculum known as Core Knowledge.
    Autumn 1993
89. The Futile Crusade
    The Rise and Fall of Joe Fernandez
    Spring 1993

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