Today marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the first such milestone for a British monarch. In Unherd, Helen Thompson catalogues the evolution of the modern-day monarch’s roles, from Edward VII to George VI. If the monarchy is to survive beyond its second Elizabethan Era, Thompson warns, it must evolve once more.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


