This week’s selected media, September 6, 2026: Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence, Decline in Independent Activity, RIP Gloria Steinem, and some smaller articles
This week I finished: Should Letting Children Play Alone Outside Be a Crime?, by Ian Frisch in the New York Times: Reading this article prompted me to comment in an online community and to follow up with a string of other articles. The article recounted stories of people reporting to police seeing children without parents watching them, followed by police and the government pursuing the parents. It described an ongoing trend of children being rendered unable to develop independence and social emotional skills. I found the article on the StrongTowns community site. Its founder and podcast guest Chuck Marohn was going to record a podcast episode on it and was soliciting comments from the community. I wrote: From the NY Times article: “Some experts point out…
