Over the weekend I enjoyed reading Mary Eberstadt’s 2012 book entitled Adam and Eve after the Pill—Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution. In many ways Adam and Eve after the Pill expands on themes Eberstadt delivers in her 2004 book entitled Home-alone America—The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes (a book […]
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July 24, 2013
Putting One’s “Transvaluation” House In Order
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September 26, 2012
TRUER WORDS: Evolution Is Blind But Fiercely Focused
As I have written and blogged about many times, our Foundation was (and continues to be) greatly influenced by an article that appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). The article is entitled Leading Boldly: Foundations Can Move Past Traditional Approaches To Create Social Change Through Imaginative—And Even Controversial—Leadership. […]
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March 13, 2012
COMMENT: Is There An Objectification Double Standard?
In recent months I have heard two anecdotes that share a common theme, a theme that I find shocking and disturbing. The theme runs something like the following: Increasingly mothers are being pressured by the system (which I will define in a moment) to place their children on behavioral drugs—drugs more powerful than cocaine in […]
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February 11, 2011
Comment: We Can Go Home Now … The “Singularity” Is Here
Comment on: Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge – TIME. By Lev Grossman – Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 Hello all. I’ve been away nursing a rather nasty head cold (turned nasty cough now). While I was convalescing, I happened upon Lev Grossman’s article over at Time.com entitled Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, […]
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Affordable Ashmordable … What About Desirable Care?
I applaud efforts to make healthcare affordable, but in this blog post I’d like to offer up a caution: “As we make healthcare in specific and care in general more affordable, will it still remain desirable?” Looked at another way, does it make sense to make something that is quickly becoming undesirable, affordable? Should we be […]
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