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Print this article Matt Feeney’s Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age is a lucid, moving account of the pressures on contemporary American middle-class and upper-class families to assure their children’s success. Drawing on his experience as a father and on recent social science research, Feeney shows how competitive pressures are reshaping every aspect of family life. Preparing their children for interviews at highly selective preschools, helping them with ever-more ...

Posted at 9:04 pm on December 17, 2020 by Brett T. We’re old enough to remember back in 2018 when the journal Nature published an editorial opposing a Trump administration proposal to “establish a legal definition of whether someone is male or female based on the genitals they are born with.” Nature’s editors concluded that assigning gender by the genitals one is born with “has no foundation in science.” They’re late to the party, but now the New England Journal of Medicine has co...