Use Your Words

Comedian Josh Johnson wonders if some people should’ve been spanked as kids.

When producer Ike Sriskandarajah tries to sleep-train his baby, a neighbor decides to call the police.

Parents try to shape who we are in their own image.

Dan Savage points a finger at the Catholic Church for being the kind of criminal organization that drives him to atheism—despite the fact that he still wants to believe he'll see his mom in heaven someday.

Regular This American Life contributor Dan Savage, a syndicated sex columnist with possibly the filthiest mouth of anyone you could ever meet, finds a TV program so dirty, so weird, and so perverted that he won't let his son watch it—even though it's a kids' show, made for kids, and broadcast on a network for kids.

Dan Savage made a pledge over a decade ago that he hoped would just vanish.