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  • What Children’s Toys Tell Us About Our ‘Brave New World’

    What Children’s Toys Tell Us About Our ‘Brave New World’0

    Why do children today have so many toys? Like most parents, I’m working hard to keep my kids entertained indoors during quarantine. A new report shows online sales of toys and games have increased by 182 percent due to the coronavirus. Here’s the problem: my children already have too much stuff. I can’t possibly buy them anything

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  • What Children Lose By Not Gardening

    What Children Lose By Not Gardening0

    One summer while I was in middle school, my grandfather brought my family a number of potato sets to plant in our garden. As we had more than we needed, I passed off a handful to my friend who lived across the street. Despite lacking a green thumb, she eagerly planted them in a corner

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  • What Charles Dickens Understood About Self-Pity

    What Charles Dickens Understood About Self-Pity0

    Over the last few weeks I have been making my way through Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. In reading it, I have once again been struck by Dickens’ remarkable ability to weave multiple, insignificant storylines into a cohesive tale. It is this talent which perhaps explains why a main theme of the novel did not hit

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  • What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority?

    What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority?2

    You’ve been there. You’re in the store, minding your own business when suddenly you hear the angry screams of a child, interspersed with: “Johnny, get up off the floor this instant! I mean it, Johnny! By the time I count to three… Johnny, mommy will give you a cookie when we get to the car

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  • What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority?

    What Caused the Collapse of Parental Authority?3

    You’ve been there. You’re in the store, minding your own business when suddenly you hear the angry screams of a child, interspersed with: “Johnny, get up off the floor this instant! I mean it, Johnny! By the time I count to three… Johnny, mommy will give you a cookie when we get to the car

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  • What Cathy Newman’s Interview with Jordan Peterson Really Tells Us

    What Cathy Newman’s Interview with Jordan Peterson Really Tells Us0

    A week ago Britain’s Channel 4, a public service, aired an interview with Canadian academic and free speech hero Jordan B. Peterson. The interview, coinciding with the release in the UK of his book, 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos (more about which in MercatorNet soon), has been viewed more than 3,460,000 times

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