Nature, Nurture, and the 'Blank Slate' of Childhood

Jonah Goldberg teams up with Emily Oster—Brown University economist, and more importantly, Dispatch contributor—to discuss Tylenol and autism, the allure of tradwives, and the battle over household divisions of labor.

Show Notes:
—Emily Oster’s writer page for The Dispatch
—Emily for The Dispatch: Missteps to a Misguided Claim
—ParentData website
—Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong—and What You Really Need to Know
—Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
—The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Year
—The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications
—“I, Pencil”

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