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  • Is a Happy Marriage Just a Matter of Genes?

    Is a Happy Marriage Just a Matter of Genes?0

    What’s the secret of a happy and enduring marriage? According to a team from the Yale School of Public Health, it could be the genes of husband and wife. In a paper published last week in the journal PLOS One, it reported that when at least one partner had a genetic variation within the oxytocin

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  • Is A Critical Thinking Gap Driving Income Inequality?

    Is A Critical Thinking Gap Driving Income Inequality?0

    There is an unrelenting tide of new information that is being pushed by an ever increasing set of sources. Along with this crush of data is the certainty that much of it is inaccurate or a misrepresentation. With that understanding it is more important than ever that citizens are critical thinkers to sort out the

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  • Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?

    Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?0

    Today, the four premier leaders of The Quad—the U.S., Australia, India, and Japan—conduct their first summit, by teleconference. The Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is an informal strategy forum of the major Indo-Pacific democracies that some wish to see evolve into an Asian NATO to contain China, as NATO contained the Soviet Union for 40

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  • Is a ‘Nation Without Borders’ an Oxymoron?

    Is a ‘Nation Without Borders’ an Oxymoron?0

    Democrats have had a tough few years. Following the 2016 elections, as Vox has pointed out, Republicans achieved a political dominance not seen since the Civil War era. Not only did the GOP win the presidency while holding the House and Senate, it held total control in 24 states (compared to seven states for Democrats)

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  • Is ‘Stuff’ Paralyzing Today’s Children?

    Is ‘Stuff’ Paralyzing Today’s Children?0

    I’m thinking of getting rid of most of my kids’ toys. I’m simply tired of the messes. I thought at first that we just needed to teach our kids more discipline; that in addition to our thorough weekly clean we needed to be more rigid about overseeing morning and evening cleans. But ain’t nobody got

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  • Is ‘devouring’ books a sign of superficiality in a reader?

    Is ‘devouring’ books a sign of superficiality in a reader?0

    Last year, a reporter in the Guardian described how the Man Booker Prize judges spent ‘a summer… devouring novel after magnificent novel’, culminating in their selection of ‘a (baker’s) dozen’. This is nothing unusual. The language of eating is often used to describe reading habits. If pressed for an explanation, one might say that to

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