Declining fertility is not a sign of a healthy society. Something is wrong, and people know it. Journalists, scholars, and policymakers alike have scrutinized all sorts of factors and written up plenty of interesting proposals, but have steered clear of one critical component: birth itself. That omission is like ignoring the hole in the bottom […]
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A defining feature of the United States of America, a clear and long-standing mark of this nation’s “exceptionalism,” recently took a harsh blow. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2021 that annual population growth had fallen to near zero, the lowest figure ever recorded in the nation’s history. As recently as 2016, the nation grew […]
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Some families live under the impossible burden — or perhaps the neglectful default — of allowing children to choose for themselves. This practice extends to the foods they will eat, the manner in which they will spend leisure time, and what they will believe to be true.
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Heather Armstrong began blogging in 2001, when she was a 25-year-old graduate in English with a new job at a start-up in L.A.1 (Her name was then Heather Hamilton.) Unlike most blogs of the early 2000s, which were intended as updates for far-away friends…
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As has been so tellingly documented in The Natural Family, marriage, married happiness, large families, and the culture of the natural family have been under successful attack for 70 years. In three generations the effects of this relentless destruction…
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The right to family education (called “homeschooling” in most other countries) has been recognized in the Russian Federation since 1992. For the past five to six years, there has been an increased interest in family education, apparent in personal websites and social media, where families who choose family education…
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The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on modern education is without precedent. UNESCO reports that around 800 million students—half of all school-age children worldwide—have missed at least two-thirds of the school year due to COVID-19…
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The 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Norwegian author Knut Hamsun for his novel Growth of the Soil. It is the story of Isak, who builds a farm and a life for himself out of a tract of wilderness and little else. Isak is one durable tradesman. He makes his beginning as a shepherd and then spends a few pages meandering through farming, gardening, woodworking, and carpentry…
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The Western model of schooling has few greater foes than Joel Spring. An emeritus professor at both Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Spring defines this model as the con¬ventional K-12 “educational ladder that students climb” from primary school to graduation from high school. This approach, he says, has swept around the globe, leaving in its wake…
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In this age of cancel culture and woke gender ideology—both of which go a step or two further than mere “political correctness”—it is rare to find a scholar willing to challenge the status quo of LGBTQ research. Those who do are either castigated (by the media, other researchers, or their employers) or simply ignored.
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