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  • What We Can Learn from David Cassidy’s Dying Words

    What We Can Learn from David Cassidy’s Dying Words0

    Recently, pop idol David Cassidy of Partridge Family fame passed away at the age of 67. According to his estranged daughter Katie, his dying words were “so much wasted time.” Months before he passed, Cassidy foreshadowed the meaning behind his dying words. Early in 2017, he announced his decision to stop touring saying, “I want

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  • What We Can Learn From ‘Beowulf’ About Monsters, Gratitude, and Culture

    What We Can Learn From ‘Beowulf’ About Monsters, Gratitude, and Culture7

    In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, set around A.D. 500, King Hrothgar of the Danes builds an immense hall, Heorot, ornate yet sturdy, a bulwark against the fog and darkness and barbarism of the age. Under its beams, the King and his thanes and their families can gather, smoke great slabs of meat, and pour out

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  • What was behind Couric’s Editing Fudge on Gun Violence?

    What was behind Couric’s Editing Fudge on Gun Violence?0

    Esteemed journalist Katie Couric was caught inserting an eight-second “beat” into a documentary film on gun violence in America. In the documentary film, titled Under the Gun, members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) were asked about the ability of convicted felons and people whose names appear on terrorist watch lists to purchase guns.

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  • What Unites Americans in 2024

    What Unites Americans in 20240

    There’s plenty of division to go around in 2024. But a new Pew Research report on how Americans view major institutions offers some insights into where Americans agree—and where the biggest divides are. Titled “From Businesses and Banks to Colleges and Churches: Americans’ Views of U.S. Institutions,” the report summarized the views of over 5,000

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  • What UK Parents Are Doing About Today’s ‘Oppressive’ School System

    What UK Parents Are Doing About Today’s ‘Oppressive’ School System0

    When it comes to exports, the US ranks third behind China and the European Union. But even while it trails in the exportation of physical goods, the US seems to be succeeding in the exportation of new ideas. One of these is the modern homeschool movement. And one of the countries avidly buying into this

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  • What U.S. Students Miss by Not Learning Latin

    What U.S. Students Miss by Not Learning Latin0

    Although it’s not primetime news in the U.S., a 15 year-old student from Athens, Georgia, recently made international waves when he became the first American to win the Certamen Ovidianum Latin competition in Italy. Josiah Meadows took home $1,000 in cash and other prizes for translating a passage from Ovid and then writing an essay

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