🚨New Publication: @NAChristakis What matters more for mental health: who your friends are, or how they’re connected to each other? In our new study @BMJ_Open , we map entire village networks in rural Honduras and find interesting insights:

The spiciest take I’ve ever written, for the worst book I’ve ever read. My first for National Review. @NRO

Today @ProvMagazine, I reflect on civilizational significance of the work universities do--and this seems like a good occasion to report a professional update. For the next year, I'll be a Senior Fellow at @AshbrookCenter here @Ashland_Univ. providencemag.com/2026/06/in…

If interested, you can read the whole thing here: fairerdisputations.org/educa…

Homeschool today. My three year old has been demanding forever to do “real school” “just like brothers.” We have finally commenced per her demands. Now ten lessons into it, and I have been commanded: “I do sticker on the Big ‘D.’ Mommy do sticker on the Little ‘D.’”

Let's talk about women and higher education. First, the argument that women need higher education so they can raise godly sons actually goes back to the French Revolution period. Proto-feminists and revolutionaries sought to destroy Christian families, so they used this nefarious line often: "A woman needs to have a university education outside the home if she is to raise godly sons." This was a subtle maneuver. What they really wanted was to brainwash the girl whilst away from her Christian father's authority. This is why Marxists and Bolsheviks targeted and infiltrated education. Women off at school are easy prey for leftists. Second, Scripture is clear that young women should not leave their father's protection/headship, which means his household, until she is passed on to the headship of the husband at the altar. There should not be a period of "single womanhood" wherein she lives outside the authority of a head. Third, single women should not be encouraged to go get an advanced degree (you get a degree to get a job outside the home, obviously a man's domain, biblically speaking). If her main vocation/calling is motherhood, it's obvious you learn that in a home with a mother, not off at college. Let's be real: College is for training workers in the workforce. Women aren't called to do that. This whole notion that you should get married, but until then go find a career so you don't waste your time, is not what women are called, biblically, to do. Now, this does not mean she "doesn't work." She can assist her father in myriad ways within the productive household, and her mother as well. Fourth, young women should be instructed, in line with Paul (1 Tim. 5:14; Titus 2) to continue serving in the household, with headship, under a godly mother. The best place for her to learn how to be a mother is in the home, with a mother. Fifth, her father should actively seek a husband for her. He plays a pivotal role in vetting suitors, even as Abraham sought a wife for his son, Isaac. Sixth, when women pursue degrees, rack up debt, and then chase careers, this actually hurts their marriageable status—men would have to inherit a boss babe, debt, etc. They're also far busier advancing in business, which often prohibits them from spending time looking for a spouse. And they become wildly independent, which makes them unsuited for a role in which submission is the main ingredient.

Great point from @IvanaDGreco. I’ve done a lot of interviews with moms navigating matrescence. Those who step back from careers often feel a loss of identity. They no longer have the external affirmation of excelling in demanding work. Their days look so different now. (Thread)

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