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  • Of Laundry Lessons and College

    Of Laundry Lessons and College3

    Forgive the long quote coming up, but it is instructive. (And wild!) The president of Hamilton College, David Wippman, and his colleague, Cornell University American Studies professor Glenn C. Altschuler, have somehow been peeking in on the discussions parents are having online about their kids off at college. These Facebook groups can be truly helpful

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  • Of Foot Binding and Modern Childhood

    Of Foot Binding and Modern Childhood8

    We no longer live in an era of foot binding, writes my Let Grow cofounder Peter Gray, a psychologist who studies the importance of mixed-age, unsupervised play. But for about a thousand years, as he notes in a recent Substack post, girls in China would have their feet broken and bound to stop them from

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  • Of Course, I Think About the Roman Empire Daily. You Don’t?

    Of Course, I Think About the Roman Empire Daily. You Don’t?0

    Last week, my wife asked me, “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” Her question didn’t come out of nowhere. TikTok might be a minefield of Chinese cyberthreats, but it has birthed a trend in which women ask men how often they contemplate the glory that was Rome. The trend took off because wives were

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  • Of Bureaucrats and Bunk Beds

    Of Bureaucrats and Bunk Beds2

    Want to take in foster kids in Maryland? You can’t let them sleep in bunk beds. The fine print of Maryland’s foster care regulations says: “Each child shall have an individual bed that may not be stacked in vertical bunk bed formation.” In practice that means that if you don’t have a lot of extra

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  • Odysseus’ Voyage: What We Can Learn From Homer’s Everyman

    Odysseus’ Voyage: What We Can Learn From Homer’s Everyman0

    Lovers of Monty Python will recall the scene in The Life of Brian in which John Cleese, Eric Idle and Michael Palin discuss the contribution of the Romans to civilization: “What have the Romans ever done for us?” In today’s supercilious culture we tend to believe that we owe nothing to the past in general

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  • Odd Things People Say to Families with Lots of Children

    Odd Things People Say to Families with Lots of Children0

    Several of Intellectual Takeout’s Alcuin Fellows come from big families – one from a family of twelve children, the other from a family of thirteen. Because of this, we recently started swapping stories about the strange things people say when they realize the size of our crews. We get it. We’re a bit of a

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