Edward Glaeser is a very distinguished young professor of economics at Harvard University. He writes mostly about urban inequality. But in his Bloomberg column he took the time to lay out how marriage, fertility, and economic growth are related: … America’s economy has long benefited from its well- functioning labor markets. Our high marriage and [...]

Over at HuffPost, Jonathan Miller, who was once Treasurer of the state of Kentucky and recently left an appointive post as Secretary of Finance and Administration, comes out of the closet as a gay marriage supporter–after he left office, naturally. He admits to being a little bit ashamed he did so only after leaving office. [...]

David Mamet, a left-wing icon as a great playwright, has moved right and has published a book declaring his political conversion began when he first tried to write an explicitly political play in 2004: ““This was after the 2004 election,” he told me in an interview last month. “I’d never met a conservative. I didn’t [...]

Adam Liptak quoted me more or less accurately, but his emotional evaluation of our cell phone call is way off mark–as readers might have seen if he had also quoted my litany of the victories for marriage won over this year, and over the past few years. Not bitter, and not besieged (as we keep [...]