[This episode originally aired 1.14.17]

• In this broadcast, John discusses the 1963 essay by Flannery O'Connor, “Total Effect and the Eighth Grade,” in which she says, in effect, that the whims and preferences of children should always, always be sublimated to the sense and judgment of their elders.

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