“If you do not know how to be patient in the face of repeated provocations, your children are not going to know either. When you discipline your children correctly, you are loving your grandchildren.”
Book of the Month/October 2019
I don’t have a ton to say about this book, except to reassert just how much I admire Thomas Sowell. No one does a better job of puncturing the pretensions of those who believe economic realities are a matter of opinion. There are many who are peddle nonsensical nostrums in the name of what we …
More Than One Letter, Guaranteed
Letter to the Editor: Ref: “The Slaves of Jonathan Edwards” Is there value to mentioning the year of jubilee, and the freedom, as well as hope of freedom, a slave would have under ...
A Little Something That Occurred to Me
So an idea for a meme occurred to me, and so I share it below. I will run it again on Wednesday, with an article alongside it, just brimming with explanations.
Which Was Perhaps a Bit Self-Serving
“If countercultural thinking has led to a certain naiveté when it comes to crime, it has encouraged an almost unconscionable glamorization of mental illness”
Nation of Rebels, p. 143
An Eye on the Future
“But your task is not to teach the child how to be a child—the child already knows how to be a child. You are not teaching your children to be children. You are teaching your children to grow into adults.”
The Challenge of Unethical Vaccines
Introduction: There are two basic discussions that swirl around the question of vaccination. One has to do with vaccines generally, and when it comes to this question I confess that I am not ...
Audio Reading of Post
The Counterculture Has No Bouncers
“While countercultural rebellion probably attracts no more kooks than any other movement, it is peculiarly ill equipped to deal with them once they arrive.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 137
The Real Lesson
“Imagine a basic showdown scenario: suppose a toddler is standing at the coffee table right across from you and repeatedly wants to mess with the vase. Suppose further that the toddler has just gotten mobile and you have not childproofed the house yet, and they keep wanting to touch the vase. Too often, parents think that the lesson is entitled ‘How not to mess with vases,’ when the actual lesson is called “How not to get exasperated with other people.’
Learning Art Appreciation
