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  • How Our Society Treats Prisoners ‘Like Animals’

    How Our Society Treats Prisoners ‘Like Animals’0

    About 2.2 million people reside in the approximately 5,000 prisons sprinkled across the U.S. today, more than any country in the world. They’ve been put there for being found guilty of violating any number of laws that society has deemed important enough to send people away. But what is the ultimate purpose of the prison

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  • How Our Perception of Masculinity is Changing

    How Our Perception of Masculinity is Changing0

    In recent years, a mildly trending topic of discussion has been the question, “Where have all the men gone?” While there are a number of theories as to the answer, a British survey just released by YouGov may shed some light on the issue. Among other things, the survey asked participants about their impressions of

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  • How Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality

    How Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality3

    I believe it is possible to have common sense “educated” out of you, whether by formal schooling, by one’s culture, or both. When I was studying literature in college, professors would deride any literary interpretation that smelled of an “essentialist” view of morality, gender, race, or reality. What they meant by this fancy term (which

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  • How Our Culture Disempowers Teens

    How Our Culture Disempowers Teens0

    Teenagers are extraordinarily capable.  Louis Braille invented his language for the blind when he was 15. Mary Shelley, daughter of libertarian feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote Frankenstein when she was 18. As a young teen, Anne Frank documented her life of hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Prize at 17. The Impact

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  • How Our Culture Came to Scorn Physical Work

    How Our Culture Came to Scorn Physical Work0

    As economic prosperity continues to spread, and as the American economy completes its transition into the age of information, manual labor is increasingly cast down in the popular imagination. When our youth navigate and graduate from high school, they receive a range of pressures to attend four-year colleges and pursue various “white-collar” careers, whether in

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  • How Our Contradictions Make Us Human

    How Our Contradictions Make Us Human0

    Have you ever wondered how many contradictory thoughts you have in a day? How many times your thoughts contradict your actions? How often your feelings oppose your principles and beliefs? Most of the time, we don’t see our own contradictions – it’s often easier to observe such inconsistencies in others. But you are as full

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