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Me in National Review on 12 Angry Men and Lindsay Clancy (opens the original)
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More than a million voters on IMDb give 12 Angry Men an average score of 9 out of 10, and it has been in the top ten films on that site for years. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of its critics rate it positively, and 97% of its audience agrees. I am with the 3%. 12 Angry Men is the most overrated film of all time.Yesterday, I was published in National Review on my review of the film and its comparisons to the recent Lindsay Clancy trial. You can check it out here:https://www.nationalreview.co
Abandon androgynous parenting (opens the original)
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Part III of our series: “What are the best things you could do for your child that are not socially approved in upper-middle-class America?”. Click here for part one and part two.Sometime recently, the upper middle class stopped raising sons and daughters and started raising “kids.” Y
Have your child slaughter tonight’s dinner (opens the original)
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Part II of our series: “What are the best things you could do for your child that are not socially approved in upper-middle-class America?”For nearly all of human history, almost every child bred, worked, and killed animals. Now the class that eats more meat than any large population ever would consider the last (crucial) part traumatizing. I was a city boy who grew up visiting a large dairy farm and dog breeder every summer
Better unsafe than sorry (opens the original)
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Part I of our series: “What are the best things you could do for your child that are not socially approved in upper-middle-class America?”An economist recounts: “I was driving down a Forest Service road in Montana with a climbing guide, and as we passed a meadow by a stream he remarked ‘when we were kids, every Friday my parents would load up camping gear into the jeep and my brothers and sisters and I would hop in. They’d drive to this spot, we kids would jump out, they’d dump out the
What won't polite society let you do for your kids? (opens the original)
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What are the best things you could do for your child that are not socially approved in upper-middle-class America?I am asking for things that a parent could actually do that would draw raised eyebrows or concerned asides from coworkers, family, fellow parents at the park. Hopefully we haven’t gotten to the point that such things are illegal. Ideally, the example is not just something easily published in a mass magazine (do those still exist?) as a parenting tip that people just had not yet thoug
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