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  • Are Schools Making Us ‘Intellectually Dependent’?

    Are Schools Making Us ‘Intellectually Dependent’?1

    Not long ago, I wrote about a brief essay called A Message to Garcia. The essay, written in 1899 by Elbert Hubbard, explained how President McKinley instructed a gentleman named Rowan to deliver a letter to General Garcia in Cuba during the Spanish American War. As Hubbard explains, the unique thing about this incident was

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  • Are Schools Increasingly Becoming Re-Education Camps?

    Are Schools Increasingly Becoming Re-Education Camps?0

    Apparently the new government of the Canadian province of Alberta has decided that its schoolchildren need to be re-educated about what ‘family’ means. As Charlotte Allen quips: “It used to be: ‘Heather has two mommies.’ Now, it’s: ‘Heather has two non-gendered and inclusive caregivers.’” Allen continues: Here’s the pertinent language from the rainbow-adorned ‘Guidelines for Best

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  • Are Schools Flunking Their Primary Purpose?

    Are Schools Flunking Their Primary Purpose?0

    In a recent Washington Post article, author Sarah Hamaker described how many young adults no longer know how to do simple, basic skills: Colleges and employers alike are reporting that young people can’t do life’s most basic tasks. With all of our emphasis on academics and what it takes to get into college, essential life

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  • Are Schools Designed to Keep Kids from ‘Learning Too Much’?

    Are Schools Designed to Keep Kids from ‘Learning Too Much’?0

    In a recent article, Martin Cothran noted that literacy is becoming a thing of the past in today’s schools. There are, he explained, two reasons why this is happening. The first is that fewer books are being read. The second is that the books that are read are of poorer quality – not the classic

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  • Are Rights Anything More Than Legal Conventions?

    Are Rights Anything More Than Legal Conventions?0

    We live in an age of human rights. The language of human rights has become ubiquitous, a lingua franca used for expressing the most basic demands of justice. Some are old demands, such as the prohibition of torture and slavery. Others are newer, such as claims to internet access or same-sex marriage. But what are

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  • Are Republicans the Party for the Rich?

    Are Republicans the Party for the Rich?0

    I grew up in a Republican family in a blue-collar town on the Wisconsin River. Our town produced paper, wrestlers, and Blue Dog Democrats. Every four years, during the bitter presidential election cycle, I heard these five words a lot: “Republicans are for the rich!” I first heard the rejoinder in third-grade, when the blue-blooded

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