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“I didn’t set out to be a radical, I just wanted my kids swaddled at day care.” That’s according to author and mom of four, Abby Schachter. In a recent video for Reason TV, Schachter admits that swaddling was one of the few things she as a mother felt strongly about when it came to
READ MOREAs soon as the Senate received the lone article of impeachment accusing President Donald Trump of “incitement of insurrection” in the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol, Rand Paul rose to object. The Senate, he said, has no right to try a private citizen, which Trump now is. Thus, what we are about to
READ MOREA mercenary is defined as a person who does something merely for the sake of money or some other reward. If that’s the case, then has the American school system become an institution that predominantly creates mercenaries, i.e., boys and girls who have been taught to value education for its external goods? After all, the
READ MOREA few years ago, I was chatting with a nurse at a care facility about her days off. I quickly discovered that those days were spent at another job and that she rarely saw her children because she worked seven days a week. While many Americans do not work seven days a week like this
READ MOREIs the economy killing people? The headline of a New York Post column this week by economic analyst Betsy McCaughey, senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, says it is. Allowing for her political hyperbole, she has a point that calls for careful consideration. As noted elsewhere on the basis of new statistics from
READ MOREA white picket fence, 2.5 kids, weekend barbeques—this vision was once ingrained in the American psyche. The American Dream imagined this way was portrayed across media and permeated American culture. Today, America feels like a different place. The claim that America is evil—unforgivably and systemically racist, sexist, and hateful—runs counter to this idyllic picture of
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