On episode 58 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I reviewed objections to my approach to counting states, related the most recent problems I’ve had with my golf cart, and then talked to Tim Carney about his new book, Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be. Among the questions Tim and I discussed are why we should have “lower ambitions for our kids”; what modern parents are doing wrong — and why; what caused those mistakes; whether there is a political answer to them; why creative and independent play is so important; why parents think the world is more dangerous than it is; whether achieving the cultural changes that Tim proposes will be different given the obvious collective action problem; how cultural under-confidence is responsible for the baby bust; and what Tim would do if he were a dictator.
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