The Thinking Man's Guide To Marriage

The Thinking Man's Guide to MarriageEvery Now and then, love gets so crazy that it has to be institutionalized. Marriage--that nutty dream of every mad lover from John Alden to John Hinckley--is the Swiss army knife of social conventions, one shiny package jammed full of useful features. It has, for instance, always been the therapeutic tool we use to calm one of our most irrational passions: If nothing else, marriage gets the mad dog of lust off the streets for a time and makes the world a litt...