Three toys that must be banned by the parent with an aggression that would impress even Stalin: Toy guns, toy cars, and dollhouses…


The damage that dollhouses alone have done to society is at a scale that challenges the abilities of the imagination. A toy I recommend for boys and girls? Buy something along the lines of this.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...