Month: March 2013

• Positive “Socialization” Is A Myth

  We homeschool, and so we hear occasionally the concern about the “socialization” of homeschoolers.  Homeschool families think this concern is silly, of course, and gladly take the debate every time another news story appears about some rotten event in a public school somewhere in America.  Which is every minute or so.  But I have to…

• Skull from National Geographic, 13 Dec 1012.

  

  Waiting to see the doctor. Picked up a magazine.  

• Hazlitt: on Government Credit, from “Economics”

    [Bold is mine.] But there is a decisive difference between the loans supplied by private lenders and the loans supplied by a government agency. Each private tender risks his own funds. (A banker, it is true, risks the funds of others that have been entrusted to him; but if money is lost he must…