Tuesday, August 4, 2026 · Family
THE GUY WITH THE GLASSES IS AN INSANE HUMAN BEING...
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The guy with the glasses is an insane human being. Yale Law's Samuel Moyn, on Ross Douthat's Interesting Times: don't give parents proxy votes for their kids. Give them to young adults instead. Why? "There's a divergence of interest between parents and children." Young people who aren't raising families, he says, will have "the best insight into the interests of children." Parents confuse the family's interests with the child's. Society's job includes making sure children "aren't the hostages of their parents."
Douthat's reply lands: it's absurd to imagine a 24-year-old recent college graduate has a better read on his kids than he does. Parents raise them. Parents bury them. Parents sit up at 2 a.m. A childless voting bloc does not get to claim the kids as political inventory. Remember the name.
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