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  • Are We Over-Medicating Children?

    Are We Over-Medicating Children?0

    • September 16, 2015

    A year or so ago, my sister was tasked to look after two children in a classroom/tutorial type of setting. After ignoring repeated instructions to sit down and perform the task at hand, the child on my sister’s right grinned mischievously and said, “I can’t. I didn’t have my medication today.” The child on her

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  • Are We Outsourcing Our Brains to Google?

    Are We Outsourcing Our Brains to Google?0

    “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works — no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth…. I feel tremendous guilt.” – Charmath Palihapitiya, former vice president of Facebook user growth This past March, I came across John Hawkins’ online article at PJ Media, “Fifteen Devastating Quotes That Show How Dangerous

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  • Are We Misdiagnosing Immaturity as ADHD?

    Are We Misdiagnosing Immaturity as ADHD?0

    When it comes to hyperactivity disorders such as ADHD, there’s no debate that diagnoses are on the rise amongst America’s youth. What is debated, however, is the best way to treat ADHD.  Until recently, it seemed that thrusting a pill at children was the standard treatment. But more experts are beginning to wonder if some

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  • Are We Living Under a Kakistocracy: Government by the Worst?

    Are We Living Under a Kakistocracy: Government by the Worst?5

    In 1787, as Benjamin Franklin left the final session of the Constitutional Convention, he was asked what form of government the delegates had given America. “A Republic,” he answered, “if you can keep it.” Spoiler alert: we didn’t. In 1963, Leonard Read warned Americans that “our once-upon-a-time Republic” was degenerating into something else; “we are headed into

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  • Are We Living Through an Authority Crisis?

    Are We Living Through an Authority Crisis?6

    The American government has become incredibly powerful, but it’s lost much of its authority. That’s a serious problem: The difference between power and authority is the difference between tyranny and law, mob rule and republicanism, oligarchy and statesmanship. When the dividing line between the two break down, chaos results. For years, Americans have viewed both

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  • Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?

    Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?0

    It’s almost a century since T. S. Eliot shocked the world with the avant garde innovation of “The Waste Land,” the fragmentary form of which reflected the fragmented brokenness of the modern world that it satirized. Like a modern-day inquisitor, Eliot questioned the value of modernity: “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow

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