Steven Tang's blog

Intelligence Squared is a program that arranges Oxford-style debates on a wide range of timely and provocative topics. For this debate, the proposition is MEN ARE FINISHED:

In a modern, post-industrial economy that seems better suited to women than men, many are wondering if men have been permanently left behind. Education and employment statistics point to a clear and growing dominance in women’s status at home and in the workplace. Are men primed for a comeback or have the old rules changed for good? (Media links after the jump.)

SCOTUSblog, an essential resource for anyone that follows the Supreme Court, is having a (blog) symposium on same-sex marriage where they'll be publishing articles by leading voices on both sides of the debate. This archive link goes to a page that will aggregate articles as they're posted.

Other than the symposium announcement (complete with list of contributors) there are already a few articles posted:

A New Yorker piece on Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO and one of the most powerful women in business and technology, profiles her career and also outlines her perspective on women in the workplace (as well as criticisms of her view). Broadly, she thinks women get in their own way more than men get in their way, and that many problems would be solved by women being more assertive.

Dan Mulhern, husband of former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm and soon-to-be lecturer at Berkeley Law and the Haas School of Business, writes an open letter to his thirteen-year-old son reflecting on what it means to be a man with shifting gender roles in society. He concludes it's a good time to be a man.

via post from The Good Men Project

An excellent features article about Steven and Roger Ham, a gay male couple in Arizona that started out by foster-adopting a kid at age 5 who was worried about his four younger siblings, who were all split up and bouncing around different foster homes. And so it goes, adopting siblings, infants, and special needs children. Their story is all the more remarkable for living in Arizona, where two men cannot be legally married, nor adopt children together, and the Governor just signed into law a bill that preferences (different-sex) married couples in adoptions, all else being equal.