LeBar on Children and Happiness

[Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Mark LeBar, who will soon be joining the Pileus team on a more regular basis.]   Will Wilkinson recently blogged on the “happiness” research that claims to have shown, first, that parenting produces significantly less happy adults than do childless marriages (“kids are a drag”!) and, second, [...]

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Dreyfuss on American Exceptionalism

  [Editor's Note: This is a guest post from the president of The Fund for American Studies, Roger Ream. TFAS sponsors Pileus.]   The Fund for American Studies welcomed actor Richard Dreyfuss to its offices last night. Dreyfuss, whose movie credits are many, including Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, and The Goodbye Girl (for which he [...]

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A New August 4 Movement

[Editor's Note: The following is a guest post from a regular reader of Pileus, who writes under the nom de plume "Voltaire in '08."] What if an August 4 Movement were to arise after the election of November 2? On August 4, 1789, deputies at the French National Assembly rose up one after another to [...]

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