Article 13

When two people begin a relationship, they often feel exciting, even overwhelming passion for each other. Yet for many couples, this passion declines when they get married. Sexuality starts to feel like a place of duty and work, rather than a place of life and joy. Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife has seen this story unfold with many couples — and has also helped it change direction. In this episode, s...

For a decade, young people have been suffering a mental health crisis. A major driver of this crisis has been a misunderstanding, by well-intentioned parents, of the best way to protect children. As psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues, we have over-protected children in the real world and under-protected them in the online world. This episode of Article 13 offers guidance for parents seeking a way...

Community in America has grown harder to find. The spaces and institutions that used to gather neighbors together are in decline, while loneliness, depression, and other social ills are on the rise. As Seth Kaplan and Pete Davis explain, a healthy country is built on healthy relationships, and healthy relationships are built on commitment. Relearning how to commit ourselves to a place and a group...

Most of the news we see each day is negative. This constant stream of bad news fuels news avoidance, anxiety, and animosity — all of which harm us at a spiritual level. This episode proposes a new, spiritually healthy way of engaging with the news, looking at how we can use our media diets to help us fulfill our personal vocations and cultivate the virtue of hope. Focusing on news you can act on w...

For the past several decades, Americans have been leaving Christian churches in record numbers. This phenomenon has been dubbed “The Great Dechurching” by pastors Jim Davis and Michael Graham. What’s surprising is that many of those Americans didn’t leave the church because they stopped believing. They left because their church stopped feeling like a place of belonging. What we need to do to rever...

American boys and men are facing growing challenges in school, in the labor force, and in our culture. Richard Reeves, author of Of Boys and Men , documents those challenges and the steps it will take to solve them — which include a new cultural script for masculinity. Many of our cultural spaces are suspicious of masculinity itself; others celebrate only that masculinity which conforms to the tra...

Americans are losing trust in most of their major institutions, including the institutions of government and democracy. This distrust is driven, argues Yuval Levin, in large part because Americans realize that many people in those institutions have started seeing them as a platform rather than a responsibility. This episode proposes that we can help rebuild the institutions to which we belong — fa...