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Mike Rowe and the Need to Bring Back Shop Class
- Culture, Economics, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 21, 2025
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, appearing on Fox Business on Wednesday morning, offered a bleak assessment of the American university system in 2017. “Classrooms have become propaganda vehicles where captive audiences of students are told not how to think but what to think, particularly about sensitive issues like the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict,
READ MOREIt’s no secret that a lot of Americans are taking anti-depression medication. The uptick has been so high, though, that it is raising eyebrows and questions about what’s causing it and whether or not the medicine is helping. Over at Harvard Health, the publication reports that, “According to a report released yesterday by the National
READ MOREAs a mom of two teenagers who will be forging their pathways to adulthood in the coming years, I am particularly interested in new models of higher education. While college admission certainly isn’t a requirement for my children, I hope that if they choose to pursue a Bachelor’s degree or beyond, the experience is engaging
READ MOREA newly published medical study found that infection from COVID-19 confers considerably longer-lasting and stronger protection against the Delta variant of the virus than vaccines. “The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech
READ MORERoland G. Fryer Jr. called the finding “the most surprising result” of his career. In a New York Times article published Monday, Fryer, the youngest African-American to receive tenure at Harvard, said his research finds no racial bias in police shootings. Via the Times: The result contradicts the mental image of police shootings that many
READ MOREWe all know how important reading is. It benefits relationships. It builds language development. And reading books has even been found to lengthen one’s life. Such knowledge causes many of us to be aghast at the fact that more than one in four Americans didn’t read a book last year. But what about those
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