View OriginalNobody in My House Listens to Me. Could I Be a Ghost?This goes beyond something I can cope with.
View OriginalWhy Are Parents on TikTok so Angry?The barrage of online advice from experts promoting a “gentle” approach to child-rearing is getting to them.
View OriginalSometimes Kids Need a Push. Here’s How to Do It Kindly.Raising an independent child is about empathy.
View OriginalI loved having teenage kids – but I was often terrible at it. Here are eight things I eventually learnedMy younger son just turned 20. We went to visit and, at his suggestion, hiked up a hill together.
View OriginalMy Partner Isn’t Just “Out of Town”A couple of years ago at Christmastime, my now-5-year-old daughter started crying on the way home from school. “I only got to make ONE Christmas gift at school and I gave it to Daddy! Now I don’t have one for you!” My eyes teared up as well.
View OriginalShōgun Recap: Baby EarthquakesAfter three episodes of sword fights, sweeping landscapes, and political maneuvering, Shōgun finally pulls out the missing piece of its historical-epic puzzle: romance. But as with every other element in the show, Shōgun is going to earn its love story.
View OriginalThe 2024 NCAA Men’s Tournament Bracket Breakdown: The Best Picks for Each RegionThe March Madness field is set, and we’ve made our picks for which teams could threaten each 1-seed, potentially mess up your bracket, or emerge as Cinderellas The men’s March Madness bracket has dropped, and if you need any help filling yours out before the first full day of action tips off on
View OriginalDeveloping AI Like Raising KidsShould we care for machines the way we do for children? If so, how? And what are the ethical and political implications of doing so? Can speculative science fiction offer insights into how we create and tend to a rapidly advancing reality of artificial intelligence?
View OriginalI Tell the Same Lie to Every Man I Sleep With. I Think It’s Better This Way.How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! I am a 25-year-old cis, gay dude with a very low-stakes question. I’ve had tops in the past ask if I can feel it when they cum inside me.
View OriginalLogical consistency is a social burdenIn a previous post on the nature of logic I mentioned in passing that logical consistency is a learned skill, and that the motives that drive its acquisition are all social. I provided an argument for this in an extended footnote, but I always felt the exposition fell short.
View OriginalRichard Lewis on the End of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ Parkinson’s, and His MomRichard Lewis has never been anything less than an open book. To watch the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pain” onstage was to feel as if you were trapped inside his brain and being exposed to every last one of his neuroses.
View OriginalGive your mom a gunAmerican Gun:The True Story of the AR-15by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson. Farrar, Straus, 473 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 0 374 10385 9Gun Country:Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War Americaby Andrew C. McKevitt. North Carolina, 319 pp., £24.
View OriginalHelp! My Sister Thinks My Niece Joined a Cult. I Know the Real Reason Why She’s Never Around.My niece and my nephew are only five years apart but they were raised in radically different ways. My niece was expected to have straight As in all her honor classes and be a star athlete. Her parents never expressed pride in her, only berated her if she missed the bar.
View OriginalMeet The FamilyFirst, the internet made Daddy. He was strapping and benevolent, and looked out on his kingdom from the eyes of Pedro Pascal, Oscar Isaac, and Idris Elba.
View OriginalHow to Picture A.I.A technology by itself is never enough. In order for it to be of use, it needs to be accompanied by other elements, such as popular understanding, good habits, and acceptance of shared responsibility for its consequences.