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 ...
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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 ...
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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
As That Would Be Bad
“Extreme sports are just sports for people who don’t want to be mistaken for jocks”
Nation of Rebels, p. 132
Manners That Matter
“The child has bad manners, sure enough, and his father told him not to have those bad manners. But why does he have bad manners at the table? Because his father does. Snapping at your children at the dinner table is much worse than playing with your potatoes with a knife.”