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  • Distractions Don’t Have to Control You

    Distractions Don’t Have to Control You0

    Did you reach for your smartphone shortly after awaking? If so, 12 minutes later, you may reach for your smartphone again. If you are a typical smartphone user, you will check your phone 80 times today and feel anxiety if your phone is out of reach. Arguing that constant smartphone usage promises “fulfillment and excitement,”

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  • Distinguishing Important Tasks from Urgent Ones Is the Secret of Success

    Distinguishing Important Tasks from Urgent Ones Is the Secret of Success0

     “Our brains tend to prioritize immediate satisfaction over long-term rewards,” reports Tim Herrera. Herrera writes, “Even if we know a larger, less-urgent task is vastly more consequential, we will instinctively choose to do a smaller, urgent task anyway.” President Dwight Eisenhower knew his attention could be hijacked. He observed, “I have two kinds of problems,

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  • Distinguished Prof: The ‘Whiteness of Pumpkins’ Has Become ‘Perilous’

    Distinguished Prof: The ‘Whiteness of Pumpkins’ Has Become ‘Perilous’1

    • October 13, 2016

    Lisa Powell, a postdoctoral fellow in British Columbia, and Elizabeth Engelhardt, Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina, have just released an essay in a peer-reviewed journal that offers an analysis of race relations in America today. The title of their paper? “The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins.” Seriously. Listen, the jumping

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  • Distilleries Should Always Be Able to Make Hand Sanitizer

    Distilleries Should Always Be Able to Make Hand Sanitizer0

    As states across the country issued lockdown orders in the face of COVID-19, one type of business was almost uniformly deemed essential: liquor stores. For those attempting to work, homeschool kids, and stay home 24/7 without killing anyone, the continued operation of liquor stores and the distilleries that supply them was deeply appreciated. But in

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  • Dissent Drives the Advancement of Society

    Dissent Drives the Advancement of Society0

    Tolerance is the virtue of the 21st century. Because of this, we’ve seen a new clamor regarding certain opinions viewed as intolerable in America’s political discourse. What makes for a tolerable opinion? That’s hard to say. Yet the arbitrary standards are quickly enacted by certain gatekeepers as soon as someone expresses an opinion deemed too uncouth for our

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  • DISRESPECT: Public Schools Got It

    DISRESPECT: Public Schools Got It1

    Some of us may remember the Helen Lovejoy character in The Simpsons, who would appear any time some catastrophe befell the town and plaintively wail, “Won’t someone please think of the children?!” The joke here, of course, is that as long as you do something in the name of helping children, it must be right, and you

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