Posts by: Rachel
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“We are probably only at the threshold of an age in which the technological possibilities of mind control are likely to grow rapidly and what may appear at first as innocuous or beneficial powers over the personality of the individual will be at the disposal of government. The greatest threats to human freedom probably still [...]
I ran across a piece of news-gossip about the iPad recently that I thought was interesting. The story is that Apple’s iPad iBooks store will carry the entire Gutenberg Project for free download. {Story found here} For those of you who don’t know what Gutenberg Project it is a user-content-generated website that has [...]
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