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  • How Playing Boardgames Can Help Us Live Better Lives

    How Playing Boardgames Can Help Us Live Better Lives0

    Recently, my wife and I were playing a board game with some friends. She won. She didn’t want to. She wanted the rest of the group to win instead. At a crucial point in the game, she offered to make a move that would have reduced the gap between everyone. But we encouraged her to make

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  • How Play is Changing Across Generations

    How Play is Changing Across Generations0

    • August 13, 2015

    Children’s toys and play in general have changed dramatically over the last few generations. Being born in the mid 80’s I just missed the digital explosion so had a largely ‘device free’ childhood. However, my brother who is just 7 years younger than me certainly spent a lot of time on his computer and gaming.

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  • How Planned Parenthood Exploits Women

    How Planned Parenthood Exploits Women2

    Planned Parenthood made use of $699 million in United States taxpayer funds to perform over 390,000 abortions last year, according to the organisation’s recent annual report. The number represents a 5 percent increase from the previous year. “It’s been nearly two years since the U.S. Supreme Court took away our right to control our own bodies and

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  • How Phones Became Electronic Pacifiers

    How Phones Became Electronic Pacifiers0

    Imagine walking into a restaurant one evening. Most of the diners are families. Suddenly you notice something odd. Every single child in the restaurant—not just the babies but also the teenagers—is using a pacifier. And then you realize many of the parents are too. Laugh if you want, but that’s more or less what I

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  • How People Used to Celebrate ‘Midsummer Night’

    How People Used to Celebrate ‘Midsummer Night’0

    Tonight, June 23, is the setting for Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The setting was chosen for the fanciful comedy, presumably, because of the character of the feasting that took place throughout Europe on this night in times past. In his introduction to the 1878 edition of the play, Samuel Neil provides us with

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  • How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage

    How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage0

    Anyone who has read classic literature knows that there are things in old books that offend our sensibilities. And this isn’t a new phenomenon either. Every generation sees something in the thought and writing of previous generations that it doesn’t like or that it finds offensive.    The difference today is not that there are

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