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The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

In only three generations, children in the British Isles as well as the United States have lost their freedom to roam, their independently explorable territories shrinking from hundreds of acres to the dimensions of each child’s own back yard. This is not an accusation toward parents; their decisions reflect their judgments about their children’s

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We think of aesthetics as superficial, but style is an external expression of a culture’s inner spirit. What we make is who we are.

The dominance of cars has turned children’s play into work for parents, who are left coordinating and supervising their children’s time and ferrying kids to playgrounds and play dates.

We’re gonna reach beyond utility and we’re gonna make this space a celebration of the American spirit.

Parents who have sacrificed their friendships for their child may find themselves lonely and isolated when the child withdraws, wants more space, or rejects the parents

It is estimated that US workers are now more than four times as productive as our predecessors 70 years ago, but the hours we're expected to be on the clock have not gone down.

Sanders argues that one of the best ways to achieve an economically equitable benefit from the increased productivity likely to stem from AI is by lowering the workweek to 32 hours without workers having to sacrifice any of their pay.