Kim Anderson
In the course of her career as a professional mother, Kim Anderson has home-schooled her three children; trained lobbyists; coached her children and their friends in debate and speech all the way to national championships; directed musicales, children’s choirs and ancient Sumerian puppet shows; master-minded educational cooperatives; planted kitchen gardens using Roman surveying methods and 17th-century knot-work planting designs; read all the Great Books she missed in college; traveled the wor
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Articles by Kim Anderson
January 13, 2006
Government Gate-Crashing
As Judge Alito works his way through the morass of Senate questions about the limits of presidential power, we are distracted from noticing that the federal executive is not the only government sector guilty of gate-crashing. Nearly everywhere we look we find government b...
December 19, 2005
Time was when Americans knew that the choice is often between life and liberty, and in those days we chose liberty. This week in the wake of revelations that the Bush Administration has turned organs of foreign espionage against American citizens on American soil, the Senate has refused to make the...
December 09, 2005
When I was growing up, my generation was obsessed with personal fulfillment. This led many into self-destructive indulgences: promiscuity, drugs and loud, loutish demands for more of everything. There were deaths resulting from over-indulgence, but very rarely did the youth of my day seek death for...
November 29, 2005
The brouhaha over Target’s announcement that they will ban not only the Salvation Army’s charity drive but also the very words, “Merry Christmas”, is having some interesting repercussions.
First, Target’s actions paint it as a holiday Scrooge, bent on stifling the fun of a significant portion of t...
November 21, 2005
My world literature students are studying satire. Sometimes, though, the news couldn't be more howlingly absurd if Jonathan Swift himself were writing it. Take those Islamic youth in France, rioting, killing, burning, and generally terrorizing all and sundry...all to prove to a skeptical French publ...