The problem with parental alienation in the courts stems from its lack of formal recognition as a "scientifically reliable" theory, a controversy that has contributed to scant case law on the topic.

Parental alienation is when one parent (the alienating parent) intentionally damages their child’s relationship with the other parent (the target parent). Alienating parents achieve this by deploying ...

Also published in The Freeman Sat. July 25, 2026. Karl Marx is widely known today as the foundational theorist of “alienation,” a concept that can now be applied to many of his followers. In a ...

This post is nothing fancy or profound; I just want to put some emotive meat on Karl Marx’s useful, perhaps essential, yet always slightly skeletal, concept of alienation. The necessity of working for ...