A round-table conversation on leaving the traditional workplace for a home-centered life of child-rearing, gardening, cooking, sewing and other domestic tasks.
Dangerous with a needle or stove, I read the new book by Chapel Hill author Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity, with the same fascination as if I were reading about the Lost Tribe of Borneo.
"So far the discussion of most economic issues has been about policy rather than the underlying institutions. We've been avoiding systemic issues, and it's time now that we have to confront them."