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  • ‘How to Handle a Woman’

    ‘How to Handle a Woman’4

    Now, there’s a title that will wake the woke, particularly females, and send them roaring my way with brickbats and scalping knives. That word “handle” in particular splashes kerosene on the fires of rage, implying as it does some sort of manipulator. Yet “How to Handle a Woman” is the name of a song in

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  • What Paul Ehrlich and Groundhog Day Have in Common

    What Paul Ehrlich and Groundhog Day Have in Common5

    Out he pops every Feb. 2 to the music, shouts, and fanfare of thousands of spectators, Punxsutawney Phil of Pennsylvania, the most celebrated prognosticator of weather in the United States. Should Phil cast his shadow on this auspicious date, the country will face six more weeks of winter. No shadow, and an early spring is

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  • Parents: Take Charge of Your Children’s Education

    Parents: Take Charge of Your Children’s Education0

    Are America’s public schools falling apart? The evidence certainly points in that direction. In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as “The Nation’s Report Card,” found historic declines in reading and math scores among American students. Scores by grade level and subject fell dramatically in all categories. In my state of Virginia,

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  • Even in Our Age of Ugly, Beauty Will Survive

    Even in Our Age of Ugly, Beauty Will Survive2

    “Beauty,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” Whatever we may think of Scruton’s observation, it seems clear our ideas of beauty are at best confused, at worst degraded, and always subjective. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is, of course, in

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