
It’s not often one comes across sound, concise advice. So when I came across the following statement the other day, I took notice: “Live below your means.” This advice, writes Dr. Patrick Fagan, was given to a group of professional therapists, but it also translates to families. What children need most from their parents is
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Childhood can exist almost outside of time, if its tenuous relationship to the clocks and schedules of adults is preserved. A young child has no real sense of the passing of time – and thus does not bear the weight we adults feel in its relentless passing. Little boys and girls can spend hours making paper airplanes,
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Last December, I received an early Christmas present that I would have rejected just one year earlier: an “M” for “male” on my driver’s license. The switch back to male marked the end of a long journey of gender confusion and self-deception. Along the way I became a transgender activist and then America’s first legally non-binary
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Dear Dr. Peterson, Word has got about that you have been seriously ill lately, even in danger of death, and that your present struggle goes back several years, involving an auto-immune disorder and medication for anxiety. It seems hardly surprising that a demanding life as a public intellectual and controversialist in recent years has damaged your health.
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CNN news anchor, Don Lemon, needs to belittle those who don’t share his worldview. Recently Lemon guffawed hysterically as two panelists mocked Trump, Trump voters, and Southerners. Lemon was overcome with “joy” and felt no need to maintain even a semblance of objectivity as the belittlement of millions of Americans continued. CNN neither rebuked nor disciplined Lemon. Faced with
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Today’s enthusiasts for a socialist America are unlikely to know the name of Robert Blatchford. If they did, they might think twice about their current enthusiasm. Blatchford was an Englishman, a friend and debating partner of G. K. Chesterton. Born in 1851, he was a generation older than Chesterton, yet both were thinking and writing
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