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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Boycotts are costly, but they work. This is the lesson female athletes are learning across the United States as they sacrifice short-term gains and glory to reclaim their sports from female-identifying men. The latest news on this front comes out of Nevada, where a fifth women’s college volleyball team has forfeited their game against San
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On Thursday September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region. It soon carved a path of destruction through Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, and it has claimed over 250 American lives, making it the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Katrina in 2005. While the news cycle has
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“How are we feeling today?” my teacher began. “Let’s do a quick check-in.” Typically, our check-ins involved a scale of one to five. One was the worst: It meant, the teacher explained, that we felt no motivation, had no energy, and couldn’t wait for the school year to end. Five was the best: It signaled
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Former Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping is little known in the West, but his ideas should be common knowledge. He developed a new political-economic model for China, one often called “authoritarian developmentalism,” that helped hundreds of millions of people escape grinding poverty. However, “Dengism” maintained the Communist Party’s firm grip on society—and Western countries are starting
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Is the American Dream still possible? As inflation continues to bloat prices, we hear this question bandied about with increasing frequency. The answer depends a lot on how we define the “American Dream.” Investopedia’s version of the dream costs some $4.4 million over a lifetime—a figure that may place it out of reach for many
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