What has happened to the American spirit? We’ve gone from “Give me liberty, or give me death!” to “Take care of me, please.” Our colleges were once bastions of free speech; now they’re 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. It’s a University!,” takes a hard look at what’s happening around the country—including the demand for “safe spaces” and trigger warnings at universities like Yale, Brandeis, and Oberlin—and digs in his heels against the sad and dangerous infantilization of the American spirit.
Dr. Everett Piper is the national bestselling author of Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth and the 2016 recipient of the Jeane Kirkpatrick Award for Academic Freedom. He served as the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University for seventeen years, leading the school from relative obscurity to become one of today’s leading Christian universities. A contributing columnist for The Washington Times, he has been featured on outlets such as FOX and Friends and NBC’s Today.
Bill Blankschaen is a speaker, writer, and blogger at Patheos and the author of A Story Worth Telling: Your Field Guide to Living an Authentic Life.
John McLain is an award-winning storyteller with over 200 audiobook credits. He delights in narrating across many genres: detective noir, suspense and thrillers, westerns, nonfiction, biography, and more. John is a SOVAS Voice Arts Award winner, a two-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and a winner of the Audiobook Reviewer Listeners' Choice Award.