I had to laugh when I read Rod’s question about doing something “hippie-ish.” If there is a less hippie person on this blog, I don’t know who it is, and, as my father likes to say, the only thing that has changed about me since I was a boy is that I’m now taller.
The first time I read The Federalist, I was struck by Madison’s argument that the majority could be a “faction.” I’m not self-consciously countercultural, except in the superficial sense of noting that much about my way of life is contrary to the general population’s. Much of my conversation with those who find, say, homeschooling odd consists in helping them see that it is their attitude that is “odd,” often on their own terms.
