Volume 8, No. 4: Winter 2013

Education & Parenting

Review: The Beautiful Tree, by James Tooley

November 20, 2013
Review: The Beautiful Tree, by James Tooley

The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World’s Poorest People Are Educating Themselves, by James Tooley. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2009. 268 pp. $19.95 (hardcover).

Education & Parenting

Education in a Free Society

November 20, 2013
Education in a Free Society

In “The New Abolitionism: Why Education Emancipation is the Moral Imperative of Our Time” (TOS, Winter 2012–13), I argued that America’s government school system is immoral and antithetical to a free society, and that it must be abolished—not reformed. The present essay calls for the complete separation of school and state, indicates what a fully free m…

Economics

Review: The Great Deformation, by David Stockman

November 20, 2013
Review: The Great Deformation, by David Stockman

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, by David Stockman. Philadelphia: Perseus Books Group, 2013. 768 pp. $25.24 (hardcover).

Education & Parenting

Review: The Emergent Reader Series, by Laura Appleton-Smith

November 20, 2013
Review: The Emergent Reader Series, by Laura Appleton-Smith

The Emergent Reader Series, by Laura Appleton-Smith. Manchester, NH: Flyleaf Publishing. $162 (paperback boxed set).