What We Need To See When We Look At Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
My TIME.com piece today on the Rolling Stone cover controversy: The knee jerk boycotts in response to this week’s Rolling Stone cover story about Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar ‘Jahar’ Tsarnaev, are...
View ArticleThe Kids Are Still Alright
I lost the blogging mojo a while ago, (about which more here), mainly because I’ve started a wonderful new job at Yale, as a lecturer in the Yale Child Study Center. My TIME.com editor has dropped some...
View ArticleSnake Away: How I cured my phobia and learned to face fear
For as long as I can remember, I’ve hated snakes. Really. Hated. Snakes. Some of my earliest memories involve unpleasant encounters with snakes. At the tender age of six, I found my cat wrestling with...
View ArticleAaron Alexis and the Threat of the Loner
Here’s an Op-Ed I wrote with my husband in Friday’s Washington Post: In seeking to find out what led to the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard, we must ask the right questions. What features of...
View ArticleMind the Gap: How Education Inequality Holds Us Back
My post at WBUR’s Cognoscenti: The achievement gap is more than a symptom of growing inequality in the United States — it’s one of the causes as well. Inequality is rising on many fronts in the United...
View ArticleCollege Sex: 50 Shades of Black and White
College sexual assault is a big topic in the news these days, but, unfortunately, it’s being covered by a lot of people who have exchanged reason for polemic, so I’m jumping into the fray again to...
View ArticleOff To Aspen: Where Ideas Matter
I’m headed to Aspen again. Two years ago, I spoke at the Ideas Festival on the 21st Century Child. You can see me on the panel with Amy Chua, Ellen Galinsky, and Larry Cohen here, talking about the...
View ArticleWhy Ideas Matter
As I head out to Aspen tomorrow (to the Ideas Festival), I can’t help worrying that I’m both celebrating and somehow fetishizing the notion of “ideas” – treating them like tasty appetizers rather than...
View ArticleFacebook Privacy and Me
I like my privacy. I live in the woods. According to my husband, I am the “most paranoid, non-institutionalized” person he has ever met. Needless to say, I don’t have a Facebook. (However, also...
View ArticleDo College Students Need a Class In Dating?
Dating Tips for Undergrads? Here’s a link to some coverage of my Aspen Ideas Festival panel on the emotional health of college students. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that Yale should become a dating...
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