I was always impressed with how many "performative radicals" encouraged everyone to live in communal structures and lead libertarian lives, but their family lives and they way they raised their children very much resembles the traditional family structure. The traditional family steers them and their children away from drugs, early death, violence, dropping out of high school, dropping out of the labor force, and so many other modern social ills. I used to live in the Glebe, an area of Ottawa, lousy with academics, more likely than not to profess liberalized teachings on family and marriage while personally practicing conservative family values. The number of avowed feminists I have worked with, who have married "unduly macho" types and taken on very traditional roles at home is difficult to count. The Brooklyn Institute faculty looks like a scary place. It should be an interesting an innovative place, but the language used to describe faculty's work is pregnant with so many ideological signals it is difficult to ignore. I am now at the age, when female colleagues are crying how unfair it is an accomplished lawyer cannot get pregnant, but the sixteen year old next door sneezes the wrong when and she about to be a mother. Ideology is hitting reality. The family unit is too efficient when functioning to abandon. Good article. I look forward to your next review.