OR, to put it another way, college costs as much as day care. News reports this week broadcast the supposedly shocking similarity between tuition at public universities and a year of day care. The implication was that caring for a baby or toddler should be cheap, as cheap perhaps as parking a car. The news stories did not mention, of [...]

  KENDRA writes: I recently received this notice from the Indianopolis Museum of Art regarding their new membership policies. The IMA receives government funding. This part surprised me:

  KAREN I. writes: Sometimes I have something that is bothering me, but it is hard to put into words until something on your website helps to clarify what it is that I am struggling with. Your recent entry “Anxiety and Weather,” which was about how liberalism induces anxiety, is one of those posts.  What you write about [...]

  A. WRITES: I just had to respond to your post about anxiety and weather as I think VFR is dangerously off the mark here. I am a weather journalist and I can assure you, extensively covering hurricanes and other major weather events is not about hype, fearmongering or overcompensation. A lot of the discussion of [...]

  LIBERALISM is, in many ways, an expression of uncontrolled anxiety. Those who believe in human perfectibility are prone to fretfulness. If we control our circumstances, if we can master them through social engineering, then it follows that everything bad that happens is the occasion for intense worry and strategic planning.   Therefore when a bad storm occurs, there is no sense [...]

  KRIZIA writes: I have been reading your blog The Thinking Housewife for almost a year now. I simply wanted to thank you for your insightful writing, your energy in your conversations and your tactful and powerful arguments against all the untruths we’re fortunate to have addressed on your site.

   APROPOS of the recent discussions here on male authority, beginning with this entry, Lawrence Auster writes at VFR about this photo in the New York Times: The man–immature, puppy-like, disheveled–looks up to the woman for approval. The woman–cool, sublimely together, overfull of self-esteem–looks down at the man with tolerant affection and more than a touch of [...]