Some therapists aren’t telling you the truth: Christopher Cook begins, “Somewhere along the way, a cadre of therapists stopped telling people the truth. What began as a space for self-examination, emotional healing, and forward movement has slowly morphed into a mirror, one that reflects dysfunction and calls it authenticity.”
School choice participation up 25%: Adam Wittenberg reports that, “These gains mark a seismic shift in how America educates its children.”
A plastic world changed how we perceive the self: Carl Trueman says, “Where once the world was fixed and therefore I needed to find my place within it (a place that was itself rather fixed), now its lack of fixity inclines me to think that the world can actually be shaped to my will.”
The secular liturgy of ‘Goodnight Moon’: Dan Olson with an article with insight far beyond a children’s book, “Goodnight Moon reads like a bedtime prayer for a reason. Brown’s experimental writing was part of a modernist movement to shape an alternative moral ecology for children. Many of her books are, perhaps unwittingly, examples of what Philip Rieff memorably coined “deathworks”—objects of art intended to make the moral imaginary of traditional values look unimportant, even ridiculous.”
Webb telescope spots sparkling crystals in the Butterfly Nebula: Stunning!

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