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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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  • The Nude Female Form is Powerful, but is it really ‘Empowering’?

    The Nude Female Form is Powerful, but is it really ‘Empowering’?0

    Can the naked female body ever be free? Is stripping off the ultimate expression of a woman’s emancipation? Or is her bared body always subject to sexual objectification? In a foreword to The Female Eunuch (1970), Germaine Greer imagined a feminism that would win women the ‘freedom to run, shout, talk loudly and sit with

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  • The Nuances of AI Use

    The Nuances of AI Use0

    I’ve been working as a copywriter for several years now, so I’ve watched the conversation about AI in the workplace go from theoretical to practical concern. There’s real anxiety there. Many worry that if they use AI to help with their work, they’re abandoning their craft. While I understand this fear, I also think it entirely

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  • The Not-So-Great Depression Diet

    The Not-So-Great Depression Diet0

    When E.C. Harwood formed the American Institute for Economic Research 90 years ago, the New Deal was just beginning. The Great Depression, though, was over three years old, and it was a hangry, troublesome toddler. For those with a job, or on a fixed income, the Depression was great, because prices sank a great deal.

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