What Kids Can Bring to Conversations

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“During most of my early adulthood, philosophy had little appeal to me,” Elissa Strauss wrote in 2022. “As long as I treated people mostly kindly, what did it matter what I thought about right and wrong, or the nature of knowledge or the universe?”

“Until, of course, I had my first child.” Strauss’s son Augie “wanted to know things”...