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A Healing Zephyr of a Book

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that a book containing instructions on how to make catapults was published today, the high noon of nannydom.
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A Healing Zephyr of a Book
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Roger Kimball
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I first encountered “The Dangerous Book for Boys” in a London bookshop in the mid-2000s.

Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”