There are some stories that make me yell out in frustration. Frustration at the lack of respect for the nature of a child. Frustration at growing militarization and criminalization of behavior. Frustration at the abuse of children and adolescents by the society who is supposed to protect them.
My own, [...]
Here is the updated version… and it still needs work. (Look at my original post for more info on the project.)
A Women’s Liberty Reader Essay Selections
Women’s Rights
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women, 1789 Mary Wollstonecraft,”The Subjugation of Women”, A Vindication of the Rights [...]
As I was trying to find readings for a summer study group on women in liberty/individualist feminism I realized that (to the best of my internet research ability) no reader or even listing of the best libertarian works written by women has been compiled. So I thought I might try to access the vast local [...]
A fantastic article on education was published by Huffington Post yesterday. (Reminded me a bit of, well, my own post on the same topic) John Whitehead looks at zero-tolerance and discipline policies in modern American schools and makes key insights into how these are influencing the social development of children. The [...]
Two recent articles point to the emergence of something I have been waiting for…philanthropic organizations recognizing and even publicizing when they fail.
In my years working in the non-profit sector, I developed an ever-expanding wish list of things I would change. At the top of the list was the donor-fueled perverse incentive structure. Under the [...]
I know we haven’t used this blog in a while, but we are going to start again now…with the launch of Liberty for Kids-Resources for Exploring the Foundations of a Free Society, with Children!
The goal of “Liberty for Kids” is to be a guide for parents, teachers, and young people [...]
Which form of government is “our form of government?” According to political commentators and network news, we have a democracy. Do we?
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary (www.meriam-webster.com):
Democracy: is a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in [...]
I find myself constantly amazed at the lack of ethics and logic, even just plain common sense, regarding our treatment of children in society. The startling lack of judgment on the part of the Lower Merion School District (The latest headlines read:
A suburban school district secretly captured at least 56,000 webcam photographs [...]
This article on Mises.org (HT: Blake Stephenson) gives an example of how the negative feedback loops inherent in large, centrally directed bureaucracies stifle the use of judgment, local knowledge and initiative.
The article illustrates why the modern state should not be in charge of public education. But I think it also suggests that there [...]
St. Johns College President Christopher Nelson recently gave an address about the value of a liberal arts education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
If you have ever asked me why I went to St. Johns, what I think is so great about the liberal arts, or why I think that [...]
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