Jonah invites Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, to discuss the ideal way to raise little barbarians—also known as human babies. The two weed through the metaphors of garden parenting vs. carpentry parenting and the need of being needed before making a small segue into caregiving policy ideas. (The government can’t love you, Jonah!)

Show Notes:

—Friedrich von Hayek’s Nobel Prize speech

—Jonathan Haidt on The Remnant

—Tim Carney on The Remnant

—Sarah Hardy’s book on mothers

—Paul Bloom on The Remnant

—AEI’s social survey

—Alison Gopnik’s “Theory theory”

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