The State Of . . . Child Rearing

The difference between upper-middle class kids and working class and poor kids happens early. Annette Lareau is a sociology professor at Temple University who has written a book studying the differences in child rearing between the two classes. In “Unequal Childhood: Class, Race, and Family Life,” Lareau details the parenting structure of upper-middle [...]

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“There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who’s committed to her own development”
-Eleanor Holmes Norton

Hillary’s "Manufactured Consent"

Sometimes, the media intentionally mislead us; other times, they mislead us by acting like lemmings. One of my favorite writers is Noam Chomsky. A linguist by trade, Chomsky is known as an erudite critic of American foreign policy, particularly the big business gangsterism that America exports to other countries in the form of [...]