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The Offspring Inherits Their Religion and Social Values from Their Mother. The Father’s Role Is to Prepare Them for Civic Life and Adulthood.

Reflections

The rule that shows the structure Start with the cleanest legal case in the world, because it makes the abstract point immediately visible. Jewish status passes through the mother. A child born to a Jewish woman is Jewish; a child born to a Jewish man and a non-Jewish woman is not. The rule is old,…
When the World Went A-ha: The Architecture of Tutelage

Reflections

The most powerful men in the world built a blackmail engine out of children — and the conviction that finally stuck proved nothing about coercion at all. It proved that the architecture criminalizes the border crossing, not the harm. That is the first lesson. The second is that the same architecture now governs the labour…