Selected essays by Karl Zinsmeister  

from The American Enterprise magazine
and The Atlantic Monthly

Family Life
*  Why the traditional family will never be obsolete
*  Can a village raise children?
*  Why replacing parents is unwise
*  The problem with daycare
*  Marriage matters
*  Divorce's toll on children and adults
*  Fatherhood is not for wimps
*  Let boys be boys
*  Poor parenting and GenX
*  Why sex is not just a private matter
*  Crime as a children's issue
*  Family meltdown hurts schooling
*  How unplugging can help family life
*  Can we make suburbs more family-friendly?

Schooling
*  Family meltdown damages schooling
*  Progressive education isn't
* The self-esteem flimflam
*  Deep secrets of good schools
*  Data on school-reform myths
*  Let boys be boys
*  Teaching character
​*  Race preferences hurt students
*  When colleges cancel wisdom
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Religion
*  Things go better with God
*  Religion creates social bonds
*  Religious people don't have horns
*  Statistics on religious faith in America

Race
*  Fanning racial resentments is destructive
*  Toward honesty on race
*  Race in the courtroom
*  Statistics on race
*  Why racial reparations are a bad idea

Crime
*  Hypocrites on crime
*  Statistics on crime
*  Crime is curable—but only if we're wise
*  Crime as a children's issues
*  Crime is curable, but it takes discipline

Middle America
*  Why I choose rule by everyday citizens
*  Rule from the center is archaic
*  America is chock full of originals
*  The power of one person
*  Giving thanks for our warrior class
*  The secret life of the U.S. midlands
*  Government limits made the U.S.A.
*  Goodbye regular-Joe Democrats

Community life
*  The power of traditional town—an interview
*  The simple things that make a community
*  How family-friendly are today's suburbs?
*  The stupidity of snobbery
*  Not all immigrants are alike
*  The one and the many
​*  The strange wonder that is New York City

History, tradition, art, sports
*  Our wild west
*  A good war?
*  Our history and our present
*  Who needs tradition?
*  Good art, bad art
*  A sports story

Political correctness
*  Political fashion can hurt, even kill
*  The 1960s roots of radicalism today
*  Data on the fruits of progressivism
*  Propaganda in America
*  The shame of our one-party campuses
*  Colleges are the least diverse part of the U.S.
​*  Progress requires a competition of ideas

Environmentalism
*  Environmental fairy tales
*  Trendy green gospels
*  Fretting about nuclear power
*  Environmental activists profiled

Economic freedom
*  Government limits made the USA
*  Shrink government to save freedom
*  Doom or boom? economic ideas matter
*  We're not victims
*  Are living standards falling?
*  Statistics on economic anxiety
*  Don't be afraid of competition
*  Our entrepreneurial angels
*  Is investing for everyone?

Europe in decline
*  Old and in the way
*  Europe learns the wrong lessons
*  Europe in decline

Are Americans still fighters?
*  Test of a lifetime
*  The cold realities of war
*  The costs of defeating death
*  Progress, failure, and fortitude
*  Fighting cynicism
*  Iraq facts vs. fiction

Some interviews
*  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
*  Rudolph Giuliani
*  Andres Duany
*  Rupert Murdoch