Over the weekend, Hard Candy was cast into the “Not bad, but probably not going to watch this film again” pile, not so much because of the pedophile-based subject matter, but because – in general – anyone being castrated on screen freaks me out. Although, for the record, I am very anti-pedophilia. Despite being Salvador Dali’s worst […]
Amy Chua, Yale law professor and author of the derided yet oft-purchased best-seller Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in which she criticizes the Western style of parenting, writes in an excerpt of her novel for The Wall Street Journal, “I’ve noticed that Western parents are extremely anxious about their children’s self-esteem. They worry about how their […]