By David Abel Globe Staff Writer Book refusal shows Harvard bias, authors say Harvard University Press has, over the years, published books exploring such socially sensitive subjects as racism, feminism, and homosexuality. High-minded scholarship, its editors insist, trumps partisan bickering or petty pop cultural fads. Once political candidates had to explain their divorces, but Hillary Clinton, candidate for the Senate, is being asked to explain her marriage. She faced the question again on Sunday, during her debate with Rick Lazio. For the Soul Look out, Singletons.
Marriage is Back.
Back, back, back. The Facts of Married Life Ozzie and Harriet were right Judith Wallerstein causes heartburn among marriage counselors, social workers, lawyers, journalists, feminists, academic experts on divorce - and some men and women who've been divorced. Columnist Katha Pollitt darkly suggests that the children of divorce whom Wallerstein has interviewed over the past quarter-century are lying to her about their anxiety and pain. Howard Markman, a psychologist and marriage researcher at the University of Denver, insists she ignores evidence that contradicts her view about the suffering divorce inflicts on children. Even New Republic senior editor Margaret Talbot, an admirer of Wallerstein, delicately skips over her newest and boldest finding that staying together in a loveless marriage really is good for the kids - while lauding her new study of the destructive impact of divorce on children in the New York Times Book Review.