Better unsafe than sorry
Part I of our series: “What are the best things you could do for your child that are not socially approved in upper-middle-class America?”
Grant Reads Books
A newsletter about how to be a better American and how America can be better.
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest posts
What won't polite society let you do for your kids?
What are the best things you could do for your child that are not socially approved in upper-middle-class America?
Change the world or do the dishes?
The Gist: Interviewing Ryan Burge about American religion.
A generation away from liberty’s extinction
Part two of my series on 10+ kids’ books on America’s origins.
10+ kids’ books on America’s origins
Part one of my series on 10+ kids’ books on America’s origins.
Who blacklisted whom in Hollywood?
1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee asked Hollywood, “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?” Ten men, all “dedicated, hard-line Stalinists who regularly followed the twists and turns of the Communist-party line, as dictated from Moscow,”
Death by compliance
The Gist: How regulation drove the 2008 financial crisis
Mistaking prudence for prejudice
The Gist: How taxpayer-subsidized housing drove the 2008 financial crisis.
Money, mispriced
The Gist: How the Federal Reserve drove the 2008 financial crisis.
Too big to blame
In 2008, what was supposed to be the safest investment in America turned out to be the one the government had made the most dangerous: the home.