How Back-to-School Shopping Is Like Modern Politics
by Gary M. Galles
Back-to-school shopping often involves strident confrontations due to large gaps between the values parents and children place on the items in question and the very different costs they must bear to get them because those decisions must be jointly made. That is also why modern politics heightens Americans’ disunity.
THE FREQUENT PARENT-CHILD CONFLICT OF BACK-TO-SCHOOL SHOPPING ILLUSTRATES WHY POLITICS EXPANDS AMERICANS’ DISUNITY. |