Not a Day Care
The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth

What has happened to the American spirit? Weve gone from Give me liberty, or give me death! to Take care of me, please. Our colleges were once bastions of free speech; now theyre bastions of speech codes. Our culture once rewarded independence; now it rewards victimhood. Parents once taught their kids how to fend for themselves; now, any parent who tries may get a visit from the police.In Not a Day Care, Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University and author of the viral essay, This Is Not a Day Care. Its a University!, takes a hard look at whats happening around the countryincluding the demand for safe spaces and trigger warnings at universities like Yale, Brandeis, and Oberlinand digs in his heels against the sad and dangerous infantilization of the American spirit.