Why Monogamy Matters

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/opinion/07douthat.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=why%20monogamy%20matters&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:02 PM
Subject: re: Why Monogamy Matters
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    Mr. Douthat slides lazily from evidence of correlation to a presumption of causality. The data presented could as easily mean that unhappy young women are quicker to seek solace in sex than those who count themselves happier.  As long as this paper is paying his salary, it cannot dodge all blame for his intellectual laxity. Indeed, if he is the best public intellectual who could be found on the American Right, that pool is very poor indeed.

Barry Levine