Fatherless America by David Blankenhorn

 Re-read of a classic. Written in the 1990s, prophetic of the social dysfunction we are experiencing today.

Diversity: The Invention of a Concept by Peter Wood

 "Diversity" has become a dominant concept in our culture but few people know its history or its origin. Wood traces the evolution of the concept of "diversity" and how it came to be such a powerful factor in our social life.

Fatherless America by David Blankenhorn

Found this for a couple of bucks while browsing in the used bookstore. A classic from the 1990's, Blankenhorn uses the characters of the Old Father, New Father, Deadbeat Dad, Visiting Father and others to explain the crisis in fatherhood (which has only become much worse since then). He does an excellent job showing how all the various "new" fathers fail to provide the family what only real fathers can.

The Social Animal by David Brooks

David Brooks explains that human behavior is driven by emotion more than reason. Duh. An irritating feature of the book is Brooks commitment to appear politically even-handed; when he criticizes the left for something, he must follow it immediately by a criticism of the right, with himself positioned as some sort of Aristotelian mean between the two. Is it never the case that either the left or right is simply correct on some policy position? Is the wise position always a splitting of the difference between the two?

Liberation's Children by Kay Hymowitz

A collection of her essays.