“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden,” writes Mark Twain’s Adam on Eve’s headstone. In “The Diaries of Adam and Eve,” Adam initially finds Eve meddlesome and impractical. The more he lets her into his life, the more she complicates it. But years after leaving the garden, Adam acknowledges “it is better to live outside the garden with her than inside it without her.”

Twain was not religious, but he saw there could be no paradise where man and woman were separated.

Americans are less convinced. Marriage rates are in sharp decline, and divisions on gender issues are increasing between younger men and women especially. The American Enterprise Institute found that compared with national figures, “the gender gap is twice as large among voters age 18 to 29.”

Men and women increasingly atten

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