July 27, 2012 “It has always intrigued me that, in a culture that is relentlessly self-critical… the pre-school hysteria and witch-hunts of the 1980s and ’90s (have) attracted little, if any, notice among historians and social analysts. “Which is odd: We moderns like to think that we are exempt from some of the baser instincts … Continue reading Why have historians overlooked day-care mania?