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We know what we’re feeling, just not how and why we got here.

Save this story for later. My parents did not often concern themselves with my moral education, but, when they did, whatever wisdom or warnings they had to impart were accompanied by books—typically, pop-psychology best-sellers. Two stand out in my memory: “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls,” by Mary Pipher, and “Emotional Intelligence,” by Daniel Goleman. The first I read with great satisfaction. None of my transgressions were as alarming or exciting as what Pipher described—no drugs, no clandestine trips to the family liquor cabinet, no sullen application o...

On Community: The inner life and social value of older individuals The McDonough County Voice Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, when so many people express affection with cards and gifts. But it also happens to be the birthday of my oldest friend, Mary Stipanowich, who will be 99 on February 14. My wife Garnette and I have already sent her a birthday card. Mary was born in 1922 and raised during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression, so she is among the last Americans who can remember life in those two distinctive eras. Some of my readers may recall seeing the television interview program that...

USA TODAY In The New York Times documentary "Framing Britney Spears," viewers saw a gifted female pop star brought to her knees by a sexist culture that never let her freely live. Many women of the '90s also saw themselves.  Culture held Spears up as an all American girl but had her walk a tight line: look stunning but embody the girl next door, act sexy but remain a virgin, be articulate but never opinionated. "I mean, it's just all too much to ask of one girl," said journalist Allison Yarrow, author of "90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality.”