Author Archive | Ellen Kenner

Imagine being told that you use “mental gimmickry” and exhibit a “non-evidence-based mental process” when you’re expressing your political ideas. John J. Colby (“Robitaille doesn’t understand people,” Commentary, Sept. 24) alleges this about Rhode Island Republican gubernatorial candidate John Robitaille while curiously ignoring a wealth of information about his character. Robitaille’s background will let you [...]

In the healthiest meaning of love and sex, both involve “compromise,” but not of the kind inherent in any moral code of sacrifice or selflessness. Sacrifice indicates that you are being dishonest with yourself and with your partner. For example, if a wife tells her husband: “Yes honey, I’ll do whatever you feel like doing [...]

Your sexual choice reveals a lot about who you are and what you think of yourself. Some people shoot for a partner lower than themselves. For example, a intelligent guy may feel that he’s only able to hold some “dumb broad” he picks up at a bar. He knows he can control her and not [...]

Let us take a closer look at what such admiration consist of by grasping the concept of psychological visibility. Every person holds fundamental ideas about himself. Take Tom who thinks “It’s important to make healthy, honest choices in my life. I want to feel proud of the way I’m leading my life.” He values, not [...]

What is sex? I can picture asking an adolescent boy this question and he’d say “You don’t know