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Articles by Naomi Schaefer Riley: 2013 – 2015

The secret of ‘Joy’ — how imaginary play can lead to genuis
New York Post December 28, 2015

Spoiled students think gourmet school lunches are a right
New York Post December 27, 2015

Why guys think it’s OK for them to sleep around but not women
New York Post December 22, 2015

What Today’s Philanthropoids Could Learn from Andrew Carnegie
National Review Online December 22, 2015

Babies born at 23 weeks make abortion debates awkward
New York Post December 25, 2015

Listen to Scott Weiland’s widow about the dark side of rock fame
New York Post December 15, 2015

NY’s response to not enough kids passing a test? Make it easier to pass
New York Post December 13, 2015

Click here to make sure your kid doesn’t become a liberal jackass at college
New York Post December 10, 2015

Parents at swastika-defending elite school should get a refund
New York Post November 30, 2015

Listen to science, don’t hire a hot nanny!
New York Post November 29, 2015

The new Thanksgiving family fight: war over tablets & TV
New York Post November 25, 2015

Why parents are scared to let their kids grow up
New York Post November 22, 2015

Behind the campus ‘crisis’: a generation of too-delicate flowers
New York Post November 17, 2015

Parents should not give up trying to police kids sexting
New York Post November 15, 2015

Message: I Care
Commentary November 10, 2015

Are Working Parents As Busy As They Think?
Family Studies November 9, 2015

Turning convicts into college graduates — the best second chance there is
New York Post November 9, 2015

Legalized marijuana won’t save Indian reservations
New York Post November 8, 2015

Free SATs: An excellent idea from Bill de Blasio
New York Post November 5, 2015

Kids aren’t spending enough time just going outside
New York Post November 1, 2015

The best jobs for balancing work and life
New York Post October 27, 2015

David Weekley, Philanthropist Extraordinaire
The Weekly Standard October 26, 2015

Gloria Steinem’s lunatic ‘cry at the office’ advice
New York Post October 19, 2015

Hey parents, children and iPads are a bad mix
New York Post October 18, 2015

How smart phones feed teens’ relationship obsessions
New York Post October 14, 2015

De Blasio’s plan to socially engineer cultural groups
New York Post October 10, 2015

Michelle Obama’s misguided girl power agenda
New York Post October 5, 2015

Zuckerberg’s $100 Million Lesson
Wall Street Journal October 5, 2015

Charter schools suspend kids, public schools don’t — which does better?
New York Post October 4, 2015

Michael Douglas’ mixed-faith message for every religion
New York Post September 28, 2015

The myth of the college “rape culture”
New York Post September 27, 2015

Sorry — nobody needs sex ed from Jessica Biel
New York Post September 22, 2015

The folly of teaching computer science to high school kids
New York Post September 20, 2015

Don’t let your kids turn into tablet junkies!
New York Post September 17, 2015

A Sit-Down With God
Wall Street Journal September 16, 2015

Why do college kids have so much time to smoke pot?
New York Post September 13, 2015

God battles ‘Straight Outta Compton’ for African-Americans’ souls
New York Post September 13, 2015

The latest frontier in spoiled parenting
New York Post August 30, 2015

John Oliver’s cockeyed bid to have the feds vet churches
New York Post August 25, 2015

‘Faith Ed.,’ by Linda K. Wertheimer
The New York Times August 22, 2015

How choice can end a New York school war
New York Post August 17, 2015

Tinder is tearing society apart
New York Post August 16, 2015

Are teens having second thoughts about oversharing online?
New York Post August 10, 2015

Millennial ‘Mr. Moms’ turn out to be all talk
New York Post August 4, 2015

Blaming sexism & racism for everything demeans real struggles against prejudice
New York Post August 1, 2015

Pride or Prejudice?
Wall Street Journal July 31, 2015

Getting mobbed on the Web: Parents’ newest fear
New York Post July 29, 2015

Worldwide Social Engineering, Brought to You by All the Smart Philanthropists
National Review Online July 13, 2015

No, Native Americans *weren’t* the original environmentalists
New York Post July 13, 2015

Parents: Keep your kids off reality TV!
New York Post July 6, 2015

‘Designer babies’ are an unregulated reality
New York Post July 5, 2015

No, Americans aren’t ‘work martyrs’
New York Post June 29, 2015

Diddy is the ultimate coddling helicopter parent
New York Post June 28, 2015

The true payoff from Scott Walker’s war on tenure
New York Post June 22, 2015

Gap and J.Crew’s real problem: I just want a good pair of pants!
New York Post June 21, 2015

The lunatic lynching of ‘sexist scientist’ Tim Hunt
New York Post June 15, 2015

Reading? Math? Nah — let’s teach kids how to put on a condom
New York Post June 14, 2015

NYU drops its worries on rape
New York Post June 7, 2015

The feminist revolution is eating its own
New York Post June 1, 2015

How Pinterest is driving moms crazy
New York Post May 31, 2015

Why powerful men now hide behind open doors
New York Post May 26, 2015

Celebrity ‘community service’ only serves the celebs
New York Post May 19, 2015

Thank you schools for holding the hem line on racy prom dresses
New York Post May 17, 2015

The surprising truth about the Bible & modern bigotry
New York Post May 12, 2015

Ad nauseam: Why have commercials gotten so crude?
New York Post May 10, 2015

Living the American dream: A pregnant mom’s escape from Vietnam
New York Post May 3, 2015

Birds, Bees and Bureaucracies
Wall Street Journal April 30, 2015

The campus crusade to ‘safely’ squelch speech
New York Post April 27, 2015

‘Full House’ spinoff shows hunger for family entertainment
New York Post April 26, 2015

The Left’s Guide to the Class Divide
Commentary April 21, 2015

Harvard’s wacky campus-sex survey
New York Post April 20, 2015

An ‘oppressive society’ isn’t forcing women to marry and have kids
New York Post April 19, 2015

It Takes a Village to Promote Free-Range Parenting
Family Studies April 15, 2015

Skip the sharing, kids
New York Post April 15, 2015

Facts matter: Left sticks to ‘narratives,’ evidence be damned
New York Post April 6, 2015

Working moms aren’t holding kids back — it’s the lack of fathers
New York Post April 5, 2015

Greens gone wild on college campuses
New York Post March 30, 2015

Promiscuity is not the path to female enlightenment
New York Post March 29, 2015

Tip for college girls: Never trust anyone
New York Post March 23, 2015

Nutty notions for handing out a billion
New York Post March 18, 2015

If you don’t want your kid to be a narcissist, get tougher now
New York Post March 15, 2015

Facing facts on the pill and the poor
New York Post March 10, 2015

The Lowdown on Higher Education
The Weekly Standard March 9, 2015

Hey moms! There’s nothing wrong with clutter
New York Post March 8, 2015

A store for bad moms?
New York Post March 2, 2015

Why Disney World is the only ‘guaranteed’ vacation in America
New York Post March 1, 2015

Do we need to integrate our churches?
New York Post February 23, 2015

Breaking (up) Bad: Risks of remaining friends
New York Post February 16, 2015

How did ‘Fifty Shades’ go from extreme to normal in just 2 years?
New York Post February 15, 2015

How shacking up leads to divorce
New York Post February 9, 2015

Columbia mattress rape case is not justice — it’s shaming without proof
New York Post February 8, 2015

Reality TV torture: inflicting horror to fake drama
New York Post February 1, 2015

We live together before marriage longer, yet the less we know about our spouses
New York Post February 1, 2015

Labor’s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America
Commentary January 29, 2015

The lunacy of the feminist war on T-shirts
New York Post January 26, 2015

Parenting overkill: Finding the right way to let kids grow up
New York Post January 18, 2015

Middle-aged women prove Russell Crowe wrong at Globes
New York Post January 13, 2015

It’s a terrible idea to allow cellphones in schools
New York Post January 11, 2015

Exploiting tragedy: Transgender teen’s suicide poses parenting puzzles
New York Post January 5, 2015

Book Review: Secular and Proud of It
Wall Street Journal January 4, 2015

Study says fairy tales too bleak for kids — but that’s what they need
New York Post January 4, 2015

Intermarriage: a real measure of race relations
New York Post December 29, 2014

Our troubled foster system needs more support, good parents
New York Post December 28, 2014

Surveillance for kids elves: Parents’ little helpers?
New York Post December 22, 2014

The AAUP’s Ludicrous Declaration
Minding the Campus December 16, 2014

Empty ‘stories’: Beyonce and today’s college kids
New York Post December 15, 2014

Selective coddling at Columbia Law
New York Post December 9, 2014

Why more smart devices won’t help the poor
New York Post December 7, 2014

The calorie fallacy: ‘Information’ won’t stop obesity
New York Post December 1, 2014

CNN is lying when they say Ferguson protests were ‘peaceful’
New York Post November 29, 2014

Having it all? Unlikely expectations for professional women
New York Post November 24, 2014

Why Cosby spells the end of the pop culture role model
New York Post November 22, 2014

(Not really) helping minority girls
New York Post November 17, 2014

UNC scandal isn’t about athletics — it’s about empty degrees
New York Post November 16, 2014

A worthy mission for today’s grads
New York Post November 11, 2014

Academics and media tell minorities: You’ll never succeed because of racism
New York Post November 8, 2014

‘Haunted Files’: The dark side of progressivism
New York Post November 4, 2014

Media is now driving voters — mostly Dems — to the polls
New York Post November 2, 2014

Bigots Are Really Bigoted
Books & Culture November/December

Too many tests? Yes — for some kids
New York Post October 27, 2014

‘Family hour’ extinct as sitcoms get more vulgar
New York Post October 25, 2014

Getting more poor kids into college won’t fix income inequality
The Washington Post October 24, 2014

Generation Screwed
New York Post October 20, 2014

The faux empowerment of ‘All About That Bass’
New York Post October 19, 2014

Sayreville horror: It’s way beyond ‘bullying’
New York Post October 13, 2014

Liberal bias in academia is destroying the integrity of research
New York Post October 12, 2014

Helping good schools save themselves
New York Post October 9, 2014

‘Active consent’ is a solution to an exaggerated problem
New York Post October 5, 2014

Fetishizing babies: Products for princesses
New York Post September 29, 2014

Beyond the same old ‘women’s agenda’
New York Post September 24, 2014

How a Bronx charter school is revolutionizing education
New York Post September 21, 2014

Greens v. the poor: It’s a movement of the ‘haves’
New York Post September 17, 2014

The pitfalls of living in a world without secrets
New York Post September 14, 2014

College’s “Religious Cliff”
New York Post September 11, 2014

A ‘rule’ for schools: Building hope in Newark
New York Post September 10, 2014

Where have all the gentlemen gone?
New York Post September 7, 2014

Diversity distractions
New York Post September 4, 2014

Why the atheist call to abort the disabled is doomed
New York Post August 31, 2014

Why you should keep your family far away from amusement parks
New York Post August 24, 2014

Book Review: ‘Seeking the Promised Land’ by David E. Campbell, John C. Green and J. Quin Monson
Wall Street Journal August 24, 2014

The wedding gamble — guests who won’t grow up
New York Post August 18, 2014

Back to the future: Adieu, middle class
New York Post August 12, 2014

Is this ‘walk-of-shame’ handbag an example of ‘empowerment?’
New York Post August 10, 2014

Scenes from the feminist implosion
New York Post August 4, 2014

Bloom should be cheered for defending a woman’s honor
New York Post August 3, 2014

‘Rude’ awakenings: When dad denies a suitor
New York Post July 28, 2014

Our sex-obsessed culture is turning men into pigs
New York Post July 26, 2014

Facebook and infidelity: Part cause, part symptom
New York Post July 21, 2014

Why the guy who bought his daughter a ‘kingdom’ is un-American
New York Post July 19, 2014

Math Camp in a Barn: Intensive Instruction, No-Nonsense Discipline
Wall Street Journal July 18, 2014

The New York Public Library’s pathetic summer reading list for kids
New York Post July 14, 2014

Scaling up for success: KIPP’s formula for great schools
New York Post July 9, 2014

A ‘popular’ problem — when teens impress other teens
New York Post July 2, 2014

The Starbucks Solution
National Review Online June 30, 2014

Why waiters should be replaced with iPads
New York Post June 28, 2014

Peak Koch Derangement Syndrome
The Weekly Standard June 27, 2014

Why marriages fail: Romance just isn’t enough
New York Post June 23, 2014

The price of summer: Some vacation costs are hidden
New York Post June 18, 2014

The birthing wars: I’ll take that epidural, thanks
New York Post June 10, 2014

How churches can get back into matchmaking
New York Post June 7, 2014

A Church in Big Easy Walking Distance
Wall Street Journal June 5, 2014

Getting kids psyched about science
New York Post June 2, 2014

Underwhelmed
Commentary June 1, 2014

Let’s stop ‘talking about race’
New York Post May 29, 2014

The Great Books Make a Comeback
Wall Street Journal May 27, 2014

Political Confessions
Wall Street Journal May 27, 2014

Give Mark Cuban a pass — this isn’t being a bigot
New York Post May 22, 2014

School district’s unseemly quest for more cash
New York Post May 20, 2014

Catholic schools that saved so many kids need rescuing
New York Post May 18, 2014

Ditched by feminists: Throwing women under the bus
New York Post May 13, 2014

The real Rx for campus rape — give up on liberal ‘answers’
New York Post May 6, 2014

Dads: The antidote to helicopter parenting
New York Post May 5, 2014

Bringing Millennials back to church
New York Post April 27, 2014

The feminist ‘confidence’ quandary
New York Post April 20, 2014

The tyranny of the organic mommy mafia
New York Post April 19, 2014

Swinging the key to a happy marriage? Don’t count on it
New York Post April 14, 2014

It’s not just athletes – college screws everyone
New York Post April 12, 2014

Extended families are like gold for working moms
New York Post April 7, 2014

Understanding — and preventing — suicide
New York Post March 31, 2014

Marriages ‘uncoupled’ by unrealistic expectations — not biology
New York Post March 30, 2014

College kids need more real-world experiences
New York Post March 24, 2014

Return of the shotgun wedding
New York Post March 22, 2014

Big Philanthropy’s New Role
The Weekly Standard March 21, 2014

Bad advice from all sides on the rush to the altar
New York Post March 17, 2014

Parents’ worst enemies are other parents
New York Post March 10, 2014

The mixed messages of Disney’s ‘Frozen’
New York Post March 3, 2014

Sex pays for college: A Duke student’s sad choice
New York Post February 28, 2014

Popping the higher education bubble
The Boston Globe February 25, 2014

Some insecurity goes a long way toward successful students
New York Post February 24, 2014

The economics of sex: Has the price gotten too cheap?
New York Post February 16, 2014

The post-racial world of Jerry Seinfeld
New York Post February 11, 2014

Save kids from ‘fuzzy’ math
New York Post February 3, 2014

‘Jay Z a poor excuse for a husband’
New York Post January 28, 2014

Book Review: ‘Families and Faith’
Wall Street Journal January 26, 2014

Wendy Davis has no future in politics
New York Post January 24, 2014

Raising kids in an age of TMI
New York Post January 21, 2014

Make Foster Care Work, Let Churches Lead
Bloomberg January 17, 2014

Making Forever Families
Philanthropy Magazine Winter 2014

We’re missing the point of marriage
New York Post January 15, 2014

Give competency-based college programs a chance: Column
USA Today January 7, 2014

The hunger of ‘activism’
New York Post January 5, 2014

Why Lis Smith loses the ladies
New York Post December 29, 2013

Living with in-laws: It had an upside once
New York Post December 24, 2013

Women think the workplace is unfair… this is why they’re wrong
New York Post December 16, 2013

Let kids find their own entertainment
New York Post December 11, 2013

The problem with public policy schools
The Washington Post December 6, 2013

The ‘Pope Francis effect’
New York Post December 4, 2013

Children of a Not So Lesser God
Wall Street Journal November 28, 2013

‘Shark Tank’ offers valuable business lessons
New York Post November 26, 2013

A woman’s sorrow
New York Post November 21, 2013

Move over Tiger mothers: Here comes the ‘Swedish mom’
New York Post November 12, 2013

Catholic schools work for kids
New York Post November 5, 2013

Some rethinking on drinking
New York Post October 29, 2013

Looking to loot the city’s parks
New York Post October 21, 2013

Why parents go to ethical extremes
New York Post October 14, 2013

Escaping modern TV
New York Post October 8, 2013

Unwed Oprah’s being a terrible role model
New York Post October 3, 2013

How smartphones kill joy
New York Post September 26, 2013

How can a parent deal with teen savages?
New York Post September 22, 2013

The challenge of raising boys
New York Post September 17, 2013

Book Review: ‘Down in the Chapel,’ by Joshua Dubler
Wall Street Journal September 15, 2013

What colleges don’t want you to know
New York Post September 11, 2013

‘Bankrupt’ parents just want better schools
New York Post September 4, 2013

You will be judged
New York Post August 26, 2013

Computers & kids
New York Post August 19, 2013

James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley: Why Shouldn’t Princeton Pay Taxes?
Wall Street Journal August 19, 2013

Russell Moore: From Moral Majority to ‘Prophetic Minority’
Wall Street Journal August 16, 2013

The trouble with kids fund-raising
New York Post August 12, 2013

Schaefer Riley: Why parents can’t just calm down
New York Post August 8, 2013

The therapy dodge
New York Post August 1, 2013

‘Middle class’ George
New York Post July 26, 2013

‘Predator’ student loans
New York Post July 23, 2013

The great bikini question
New York Post July 15, 2013

Make them visit
New York Post July 5, 2013

Why parents are terrified of Miley
New York Post June 29, 2013

NYC’s parenting secret
New York Post June 28, 2013

Can Indians move beyond casinos?
New York Post June 24, 2013

Skip the internship
New York Post June 18, 2013

Guilt-tripping the parents
New York Post June 11, 2013

Ending alimony is not so smart
New York Post June 5, 2013

What women want
New York Post May 29, 2013

Quinn’s school folly
New York Post May 20, 2013

Sign of sick times
New York Post May 12, 2013

Don’t bet on longer school days
New York Post May 6, 2013

How colleges scam the working class
New York Post April 28, 2013

Red dates, blue dates: Column
USA Today April 25, 2013

Beyond beauty
New York Post April 23, 2013

Seven things you don’t know about interfaith marriage
FOX News April 19, 2013

The politics of dolls?
New York Post April 18, 2013

Lessons in Citizenship
Philanthropy Roundtable Spring 2013

What Would Socrates Do?
Wall Street Journal April 16, 2013

Taking a Jewish Page From the Book of Mormon on Interfaith Marriage
The Jewish Daily Forward April 14, 2013

When Muslims intermarry, do they keep the faith?
The Washington Post April 12, 2013

A too-forgiving God
New York Post April 7, 2013

Interfaith Unions: A Mixed Blessing
The New York Times April 5, 2013

Plenty of Two-Faith Marriages, Not Many Two-Faith Ceremonies
April 5, 2013

Synagogue-Hopping With Generation Y
Wall Street Journal April 4, 2013

‘Dream college’ lies
New York Post April 3, 2013

Yes, they will cheat again
New York Post March 21, 2013

Porn by Equinox
New York Post March 17, 2013

Behind Columbia’s Nutella nuttiness
New York Post March 13, 2013

More than fantasy: The ‘Cannibal Cop’ & the Web
New York Post March 6, 2013

A disturbing treat for 7-year-olds
New York Post February 26, 2013

The right way to cut college costs
New York Post February 20, 2013

Seeing Through the School Daze
Wall Street Journal February 18, 2013

College Essays Make Kids Stupid and Selfish
Bloomberg February 17, 2013

The price of legal pot
New York Post February 16, 2013

Insane approach to fighting rape
New York Post February 13, 2013

Why our kids aren’t ‘Ramona the brave’
New York Post February 8, 2013

To save NYC’s catholic schools
New York Post January 31, 2013

Quinn, Zappos & the city schools
New York Post January 22, 2013

Best & the brightest
New York Post January 9, 2013

And the kids suffer
New York Post January 2, 2013

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