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  • How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression

    How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression0

    Today’s young people are depressed. According to an issue of the Johns Hopkins Health Review, “the odds of adolescents suffering from clinical depression grew by 37 percent between 2005 and 2014.” And this depression doesn’t appear to get better with age, either. According to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield report from earlier this year,

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  • How Europe Climbed Out of the Dark Ages

    How Europe Climbed Out of the Dark Ages0

    I and many others have wondered if the West is on the cusp of a new Dark Age. In spite of the impressive technological achievements of the past two centuries, some worrying, recent trends in education suggest that the intellectual capital which helped accomplish these achievements is gradually dissipating. If we are on the cusp

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  • How Erasing History and ‘Going No-Contact’ Are Related

    How Erasing History and ‘Going No-Contact’ Are Related0

    In the late 20th century, the “disappeared” referred to citizens, mostly in Latin America, who were arrested and murdered or imprisoned without due process or trial. The state, or in some cases terrorist groups or drug cartels, would then deny any knowledge of these individuals to their friends and families. They simply vanished. We don’t

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  • How Equality Destroyed the Carnegie Family

    How Equality Destroyed the Carnegie Family0

    Oh, how Andrew Carnegie adored creative destruction! How much he hated the past! His 1886 book, Triumphant Democracy,[1] a breathless paean to “the Republic,” feels like a prayer, spoken as much in numbers as in words. Among the words of his prayer, none charms like Equality—none possesses a more explanatory power or expresses such warm devotion. Even

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  • How Emotions Hijack Our Reason

    How Emotions Hijack Our Reason0

    Most people have heard of the fight or flight response. We see a grizzly in the woods and our instinct is to run screaming. Makes total sense (though it will get you killed, so don’t do it). What many people don’t realize is that we often have this same response to intense emotional situations. Feelings

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  • How Emotionalism is Slowly Replacing Rationalism

    How Emotionalism is Slowly Replacing Rationalism1

    My hometown has recently been hit with a barrage of ads for the local high-end theatre’s production of Sense and Sensibility. Like all of Jane Austen’s works, the novel manages to marry everyone off, but only after bringing the characters through the harrowing ups and downs of uncertain romantic relationships. As I was reflecting on

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