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1 week ago | 
ptbwrites.substack.com | Patrick Brown |Elliot Haspel |Ivana Greco |Darby Saxbe
Hello, friends. If it’s Friday, it’s Family Matters: The Main Event: Weighing Tariffs DOGE Day Afternoon: Measure Once, Cut Twice It’s Me, Hi: EWTN News Parting ShotsThe steelman case for pro-worker conservatives looking at the last two weeks of trade policy goes something like this: “Well, no, the rollout wasn’t smooth, but directionally, the White House is correct to try to fundamentally restructure the terms of global trade.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Patrick Brown |Ivana Greco |Greg Fournier
Will DOGE kill compassionate conservatism? Published February 9, 2025 Patrick T. Brown, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins Michael Reneau to discuss the evolving landscape of compassionate conservatism within the context of the Trump administration. They explore the implications of government funding for faith-based organizations, the intersection of family policy and government roles, and the cultural shifts affecting social conservatism.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
frontporchrepublic.com | Ivana Greco
The blockbuster film Wicked was recently released in theatres. It’s creating a sensation among older children and teens—my big kids are obsessively playing the soundtrack and demanding to see the movie as soon as it is released on a streaming service. (Having a newborn makes going to the movies challenging at the moment). Loosely based on the book The Wizard of Oz, the plot explores the backstory of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thehomefront.substack.com | Ivana Greco
As some of my readers know, I have been working for the past two years on a book about homemakers. The working title is No One at Home: What America Lost When Her Homemakers Went to Work, but I’m sure a real editor who wants to sell books would hate it. Right now, I’m working on a chapter about how homemaking lost its social value in the second half of the twentieth century. Post-war America essentially stopped valuing the work of the home.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Ivana Greco |Alan Pell Crawford
Culture
‘J.D.’s Mom! J.D.’s Mom!’
Let’s celebrate a small victory in the battle against the opioid crisis.
In a time of international unrest, with cold and hot wars raging between and among the U.S., its allies, and hostile foreign nations like North Korea, Russia, and Iran, it is easy to forget that we have an ongoing deadly battle raging here in the homeland: that waged by fentanyl, prescription opioids, heroin, and the like against ordinary American families.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams |Ivana Greco |Dixie Dillon Lane
Dan’s Fall Break was yesterday, so we declared a break for Williams Homeschool too! What should you do for fall break in the Midwest in October? Go to the beach, of course! So we drove a little over an hour to Marblehead Beach on Lake Erie and had the place mostly to ourselves. As you can see in this photo, the 40-some-degree water did not deter our kids from getting in and playing for a good hour. Ah, to be young.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
otherfeminisms.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant |Ivana Greco |Eve Tushnet |Sara Hendren
Other Feminisms launched four years (and two children) ago! We began with 131 readers I collected from a google form I’d circulated on twitter, and there are now over 4700 of you who have joined this community!My posting frequency has ebbed and flowed a little with my job, children, and my next book The Dignity of Dependence, out next fall.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thehomefront.substack.com | Ivana Greco
I am delighted to publish an interview with Nandini Patwardhan, a grandmother, retired software developer, writer, and naturalized U.S. citizen. Nandini came to the United States from India, and raised her children here. When raising her own children, she missed the multi-generational family support she had enjoyed as a child in India. Raising children, she noticed, was much harder without the constant love and nurture of grandparents.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
fairerdisputations.org | Ivana Greco
In Hannah’s Children, Catherine Ruth Pakaluk has written a ground-breaking book that provides novel, timely, and critical insight into the dramatic fertility decline that is taking place in developed nations. Pakaluk, a Harvard-trained economist who has eight children herself, conducted interviews with fifty-five college educated women living in the United States who had five or more children, seeking to understand why they had chosen to have such large families.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Ivana Greco
In the run-up to the 2024 election, support for parents is a hot topic. Both major presidential candidates have pledged to expand the child tax credit. The Kamala Harris campaign in particular appears to back paid child care and paid parental leave, reflecting a commitment to the broader "care economy."Parents are desperately looking for support, and regardless of who wins the presidential race, it appears some measure of relief is coming.
