Lessons From Modern Parenthood - WSJ

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lessons-from-modern-parenthood-1409ec95 By Rahm Emanuel Dec. 19, 2025 4:22 pm ET Listen (10 min) Every year I insist that each of my three children select a book for us to read together. Begrudging the assignment, my daughter Ilana spent the summer before college exploiting my love of the past by insisting we read Larry Flynt’s “One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History” (2011). I ended up learning a great deal. In Flynt’s account (which some historians dispute), not only was James Buchanan gay, but before becoming president he engaged in a fairly open affair in 1856 with a senator from Ala

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lessons-from-modern-parenthood-1409ec95 By Rahm Emanuel Dec. 19, 2025 4:22 pm ET Listen (10 min) Every year I insist that each of my three children select a book for us to read together. Begrudging the assignment, my daughter Ilana spent the summer before college exploiting my love