How does anyone overcome an addiction? One has to admit there is a problem. Following that admission, a major stumbling block for many recovering addicts is admitting the problem’s depth, enablers, and root causes. Some addicts think they can fix it by moving, but all they achieve is geographic sobriety. The root causes and broken circuits are not being fixed. We have that nationwide with heroin right now. We are too sick as a nation to admit what the root causes are. Our media cannot even be honest with us because to do so would be to frighten the population. The […]

Before the 20th century in the United States, schooling until early adulthood was largely an optional pursuit, reserved for some portion of the middle classes and better, mostly being a social pursuit that many considered impractical. Because apart from in a few states, schooling was noncompulsory, parents had options about how to prepare their children for the rigors and responsibilities of adulthood. Contrary to feminist cant, women in just about all social classes did need to learn productive pursuits. At a time when the industrial economy had yet to take shape, the household economy was still much more important. Being […]

The greatest crime and the surest proof of the insanity of the democracy in Athens, an outrage that cast a black mark on that city’s glory for two-and-a-half thousand years, was the judicial murder of Socrates in 399 B.C. On trumped up charges of impiety and corruption of the youth, a completely blameless man, in truth more pious and devoted to the education and improvement of young men than anyone else in Athens, was put to death. Spite, spite was the motive of his accusers and judges; spite for his unwavering virtue and pursuit of truth: his inquiries showcased their […]