Andrew Ladd reviews two new books with very different messages about child rearing.
Reviews
We’re Looking for a Few Good Laundry Horror Stories
Do you wear your underwear two or three times before washing them? You are not alone.
In Defense of Fathers
Andrew Ladd reviews Donald Unger’s “Men CAN.”
To Murse or Not to Murse?
How Tom Matlack took the road from Kenneth Cole to Meichi Peng man bags—and stayed manly in the process.
The Legend of the Barefoot Bandit
A modern-day folk hero in the tradition of John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd, the Barefoot Bandit captured the imagination of a country going through hard times.
Winning Friends and Influencing People, 75 Years Later
Andrew Ladd tackles an updated self-help classic—now sans sexism and racism—to find out whether its advice still holds water in 2011.
Savage City, Great Soul
Andrew Ladd reviews two books that remind us how messy even the most celebrated social change can be.
Can an App Make You More Hip?
Oh, if I had only had the great fortune to have benefited from the wisdom contained in apps.
Why Can’t I Wait to Go Camping? Hint: Cake-in-an-Orange on the Campfire
Show Me Now is bound to entertain and will most definitely not disappoint, assuming you’re not counting on it to turn you into MacGyver.
Tomorrow, I Will Fight Off a Gorilla
Where else can you learn how to fight off a gorilla and deliver a baby in a taxi within a matter of minutes?
Gimel, Gimel, Come On, Gimel
Let’s be honest, even though you may never put together a handmade wreath, these how-tos are pretty damn addictive.
Card Tricks and Great Balls of Fire
There’s a lot of bad advice out there, and Show Me Now has it’s fair share of it
College Bound
Andrew Ladd takes on Andrew Ferguson’s “Crazy U,” a behind-the-scenes look at the sprawling, expanding, money-hungry industry of higher education.
Pathological Persuasion
Andrew Ladd wonders if men are a little too excited about the power to control minds.
On ‘Manthropology’
Andrew Ladd reviews Peter McAllister’s new book, “Manthropology: The Science of Why the Modern Male Is Not the Man He Used to Be.”