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  • Advice from My Father

    Advice from My Father0

    • September 17, 2015

    I barely knew my father. As is typical of my generation, my parents separated and then divorced when I was only four or five. After picking up the pieces of his shattered existence, my father reentered my life with some regularity when I was about 8 or 9. And by that, I mean I got

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  • Advice for Presidential Candidates From Bastiat

    Advice for Presidential Candidates From Bastiat0

    Whether conjured up by something I ate before bedtime, or by the cheesy horror flick I watched a few nights before, or by something else, I just don’t know – but I tossed and turned through one of the most vivid dreams last weekend that I’ve ever experienced. The Dream I was in a classroom

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  • Adventures Outside the Comfort Zone

    Adventures Outside the Comfort Zone0

    The biggest mystery of American politics is why the media failed to take Donald Trump’s campaign for the Presidency seriously. A year ago he was a just a vulgar buffoon; now he is the presumptive nominee of the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan and could easily become the next leader of the free world.

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  • Advanced Degrees Bring Higher Starting Salaries – but Also Higher Debt

    Advanced Degrees Bring Higher Starting Salaries – but Also Higher Debt0

    People with a master’s degree or doctorate can bank on a much higher starting salary than those with the same major but only a bachelor’s degree. That’s according to a recent survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. We reached the same conclusion about the payoff for advanced degrees in a

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  • Adults are Using Children’s Activities to Unwind

    Adults are Using Children’s Activities to Unwind0

    • September 15, 2015

    These past few days, I’ve had two reminders about how stressful work is for many Americans today. The first reminder came when I watched Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary with my children the other night. In the film, they profiled the growing community of adults who build with Legos, known in the Lego world

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  • Adults Are the Reason Kids Are Addicted to Phones

    Adults Are the Reason Kids Are Addicted to Phones0

    What to do about all the young people on their phones, growing depressed, anxious… and worse? Well, there’s an ancient plaything kids have loved forever (literally). It keeps them occupied for hours and can probably hold its own against TikTok. It’s called “the world.” If we liberate kids from all the time they’re spending in

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