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Article: The Subversive Family: An Alternate History of Love and Marriage.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 15, 1993
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The Subversive Family is a startling book that promises a revolution in thought about our most basic human institution--although it doesn't quite deliver.
Ferdinand Mount, editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a former NR staffer, does for the family what Ayn Rand did for ordinary business activity. He defends something that comes perfectly naturally to ordinary people but has long been subject to elitist attack of a type that seems to have no intellectual justification.
"Among ordinary people," posits Mount, "to be happily married [has] always [been] regarded as one of the most important pieces of good fortune in life." However, among ...