Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., is seen in the Capitol's Ohio Clock Corridor after a vote in the Senate where they invoked the "nuclear option" which allows … I think those older ones should maybe publicly take some responsibility for that and maybe work a little harder at helping their children turn the tide… instead of golfing and sunning themselves in Florida and living a life of luxury paid for by SS and fat retirements and never-going-happen-again rapid property appreciation and pensions etc (and some of them even have the audacity to try an vote it away from their children/grand-children whilst blaming the kids for the countries state of affairs – talk about double selfishness), Pingback: The Teddy Roosevelt Option: Ben Sasse’s Plan to Save the Country - Keith Miller / author | Keith Miller / author(), Pingback: Interesting stuff 2017-06-19 | Paul K Buller(), Pingback: 2017’s Top Books – UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS(), Pingback: Grow Up, People! The last three of these have arrived with him in recent weeks. I really am very interested in this book because it sounds like it explains a lot of what I already knew was wrong with our culture and my generation. … There really are “two different Americas,” but not in the way the phrase lingers in our ears because of how John Edwards’s presidential campaign in 2004 branded the 1 percent and the 99 percent. He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. Because schools have replaced parents as our culture’s primary organ of child development, we have a culture of diploma-holding twenty-somethings who haven’t actually become adults in any meaningful way. I’m a fan of Joanne Freeman, but I hope that her new book — “The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War” — doesn’t end up feeling like an accurate depiction of present-day Washington. delivered a blistering critique of Donald Trump during a phone call with constituents, saying the president mishandled the coronavirus pandemic, curries favor with dictators, mistreats women, flirts with white supremacists and mocks evangelicals behind their backs. I don’t want any temptations to be drawn back into the immediacy of a phone with its demonic alerts. Being a baby boomer, I’ve thought long and hard about the prosperity my parents shared with me and my sisters. . What we’re learning about the brain — and especially about the frontal lobe of teenagers — is doubling every 18 to 24 months now. When I read fiction, I want a community of discourse to vouch for the fact that it’s already stood the test of a bit of time. Often, they’re willfully choosing poverty. Perhaps it is fitting that Sasse picked Teddy Roosevelt. As I’ve taught more — and particularly, as I’ve done more after-action evaluation on which books actually make a difference in the lives of students and friends — I’ve come to value more books and writers that economize well. A government of the people and by the people is dramatically dependent upon the character of that people. Kasich’s Two Paths does not make that particular design oversight. See, we cannot teach the lessons Sasse wants us to teach by channeling Roosevelt. (I also spent an insane amount of time with the Guinness Book of World Records and various sports almanacs.). But I think you touched on something important. For example, how can we expect our descendants to value work when the system values wealth over work? You can follow him on Twitter. Facebook says its decision to prevent the group from posting the ads came after the content ran afoul of a fact-check published in The Dispatch. The GOP senator also didn’t hold back when describing Trump’s mismanagement of the COVID crisis, saying the president “refused to treat it seriously for months” and handled it like a “PR crisis” instead of a public health emergency. It stems from the book’s afterword “If Teddy Roosevelt Spoke to a High School Graduating Class.” It is a stemwinder of a hypothetical address that runs nine pages and that I cannot resist excerpting at some length. Because context is a more important factor than role model. Aspire to be known as a worker–as one who would be ashamed not to pull his own weight . That was all rubbish, of course. Historically, it is odd, but Republicans claim him as one of the greats, the same way they might claim Abraham Lincoln. We were growing up in an age of prosperity that, depending on racial and economic class positions in society, we knew no want. Again, why is this important? In my experience, the chances are strong that one won’t be much of a man unless he was first a good deal of a boy. Like basically all politicians (or, for that matter, everyone with a social media account). As a preliminary matter, why is this important? And some of them told me that they even had to train their replacements because their jobs were being offshored. On Sunday night, a mob of nearly 300 people marched into a Portland city park, strapped chains around statues of Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, and pulled them to the ground. Then I return to the printed words after having gotten more familiar with the author’s spoken words. Are you Making This Depth and Complexity Mistake. Cultivate the virtues! If Donald Trump loses in less than three weeks, Republicans will likely do their best to pretend they never even knew the guy. I just checked in on our teenage daughters and one of them was reading “Dracula”; the other is reading “Great Expectations.”. Our constitutional forms have been said to be unfit to govern anything but a moral and religious population. But when wealthy parents insulate their children from the effort of work while treating them to the benefits of wealth, a distortion field is created. Dreher’s book, as has been amply discussed in this space, offers a journalist’s/prophet’s timely prescription for American Christians wondering How We Should Then Live as our culture’s post-Christian flood threatens to carry away our children. Rather, the interesting thing should be his explanation for why this time it’s different. Perhaps Barry Schwartz’s “The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less,” or James K. A. Smith’s “You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit.”. The job market is in worse shape than it was decades ago due to immigration, outsourcing, autormation, etc. Also, again, same thing is true about other nations. Give thanks you’ve gotten the condensed version. In areas with job growth, housing costs much more than it did decades ago because there are now many more restrictions on building. For we are workers. Delayed gratification runs contrary to our want and need it now culture, but most valuable skills (from learning to weld, to learning to play a musical instrument), require hours and hours and of training with rewards along the way often few and far between. In short it can be summed up in the title of the book’s introduction: “My Kids Need Air-Conditioning.” Our society’s wealth, technology, and educational structures are combining to give rise to a generation that can’t finish tasks, listlessly wastes time, and, is “bubble-wrapped enough” that they think it impossible to sleep without A/C cooling their room below seventy-two degrees. Instead, we learned the word ‘more.’ And that was the word that was suppose to provide our incentive to either continue or surpass our parents’ achievements. Many want to work hard to support families, get married as early as possible have a bunch of kids, coach a Lego League kids’ robotics team, live a communitarian life etc. . The entitled brats are not today’s 20-somethings but instead today’s 60-somethings. Rather, it sounds like a play to the fears that he (and others of similar temperament) honestly have, but history has shown to be unfounded. We live as interdependents with others. I like J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” but Putnam’s work is, I think, the big backdrop for understanding the vicious cycle of how declining economic opportunities for the non-educationally credentialed and family and neighborhood collapse are becoming mutually reinforcing for broad swaths of America. In that way, this book is a sibling to both Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option and John Kasich’s Two Paths.

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