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  • The Odds of Your Kid Getting Kidnapped

    The Odds of Your Kid Getting Kidnapped2

    Kidnapping remains one of the top three fears of American parents despite its (thank God!) rarity. One way to fight that outsized fear is to consider the actual odds of your child being kidnapped by a stranger. To gain some perspective, I gathered a whole lot of stats. Note: It is hard to find stats

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  • The Oddest Fact about Each U.S. President

    The Oddest Fact about Each U.S. President1

    #1. George Washington was a wealthy man, with a fortune in today’s money of an estimated $500 million. But at the time of his inauguration, he didn’t have enough money to get there so he had to borrow $600 from his neighbor.   #2. John Adams was a horrible dancer. As a result, he forced

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  • The NYT: More Biased Than They Care to Admit?

    The NYT: More Biased Than They Care to Admit?0

    Early last week, Alex Tabarrok shared some findings about The New York Times and its reporting. “Many trends develop over decades but I’ve never seen change so rapid as the breathtaking success of what one might call social justice concerns,” he writes. To illustrate this point, Tabarrok offers some fascinating graphs from Zach Goldberg and

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  • The NY Times Says Intensive Parenting Is Best, But…

    The NY Times Says Intensive Parenting Is Best, But…2

    “Parents Are Highly Involved in their Adult Children’s Lives and Fine With It,” declared the front page of The New York Times. Added the subhead: “New surveys show that today’s intensive parenting has benefits, not just risks, and most young adults seem happy with it, too.” Is that true? “Intensive parenting” is best, and kids

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  • The Nursery School Where the Children are in Charge

    The Nursery School Where the Children are in Charge0

    America’s education system as we know it was founded in the mid-1800s by Horace Mann. Among other things, Mann’s education program included top-down control of a factory-like, state-run school system, a method adopted from the province we now refer to as Germany. But it appears that 19th century Germany wasn’t the only era to lead

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  • The Numbers Don’t Support Scapegoating the Unvaccinated

    The Numbers Don’t Support Scapegoating the Unvaccinated0

    If you’re tired of the pandemic and just want to go back to normal, David Frum at The Atlantic has news for you: It’s all the stupid people who refuse to take the vaccine that are prolonging our COVID misery. Oh, wait, that’s not it exactly. In actuality, it’s all Trump’s fault. Frum, once a leading

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