MarriageTweets

There are at least two ongoing rhetorical maelstroms. The first, and more narrow one, is over marriage itself. On one side is the “everyone into the marital pool” movement; lined up against it are the lifeguards cautioning, “not so fast.” The second has yet to make quite as much noise as the first, but it is more profound. It asks why marriage is so central to our conversations, our politics, our scholarship, and our culture wars, at a time when it is so inessential to our lives. This perspective takes a step back - no, many steps back to get a good long view - and looks at the entirety of our lives, as we live them today, and what makes them meaningful. (read more)