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You know that political correctness has gone too far when those who are its biggest proponents are mocking it. That was the case the other night on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. In honor of the upcoming holiday, Kimmel featured the kid-acted, first Thanksgiving skit which has long been a staple in many elementary schools. And while
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This May, Greece’s parliament passed yet another austerity bill in the hopes of securing more European debt relief. For nearly seven and a half years, creditors have held the country in an economic stranglehold. Along the way, they’ve offered a series of lessons in adding insult to injury. Political cartoons abroad portray Greeks as lazy,
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Whenever the topic of bias and values in education comes up, most people generally would think of topics such as history or civics. But the idea of values driving all education goes much deeper. Even to math. One would assume that a teacher’s or school’s values and beliefs couldn’t interfere with math, right? After all,
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“Beauty,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” Whatever we may think of Scruton’s observation, it seems clear our ideas of beauty are at best confused, at worst degraded, and always subjective. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is, of course, in
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Even if you’re not religious, for the sake of cultural literacy, it’s still important to possess a knowledge of the world religions. Moreover, those who are non-religious can still admire the beauty of certain religious art and customs. Such admiration might be appropriate when considering the positioning of the feasts of Christmas and the
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Not too long ago, a request by a Belgian prisoner for euthanasia made international headlines — even though he was not permitted to take advantage of the legislation. But in a measure of how enthusiastically Canada has embraced euthanasia, one prisoner has already been killed under its Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) law, and three others
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