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The article focuses on R. R. Reno's exploration of economist Angus Deaton's shift away from traditional economic theories towards more humane perspectives. Topics include Deaton's critique of modern economics, John C. Médaille's advocacy for distributism as a more human-centered approach, and the historical and philosophical issues with contemporary economic models that overlook moral and practical considerations.

The article focuses on speech "The Strenuous Life," as Theodore Roosevelt identified "the American character" with "the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife." Topics include considered that novelist Émile Zola argued a similar point in a speech praising vigorous effort informed by social science.

The author discusses children considered as god's perfections and mentions modern social science tethered to economic theories which measures children as calculus unsullied by reality. Topics discussed include arguement of philosopher Michel Henry on maturation and growth manifested by life, period of infantile vulnerability of children after birth and God's sustaining grace of children.