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  • What Do Long Voting Lines Actually Mean?

    What Do Long Voting Lines Actually Mean?0

    Only a few days remain until the Nov. 3 election, and – as in many years prior – the old chestnut of “long lines” at the polling places has appeared again right on schedule. The difference this time is that many are calling any line a sign of organized “voter suppression” or the new buzzword,

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  • What Do ‘Good Schools’ Look Like? It Depends on What Parents Want

    What Do ‘Good Schools’ Look Like? It Depends on What Parents Want0

    I often hear people in the education world, especially those who are more rooted in traditional schooling models, express concern about the “quality” and “outcomes” of the innovative schools and spaces now emerging. “How do we know these are ‘good’ schools with high academic achievement and strong outcomes for students?” they’ll ask. My response is always some

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  • What Did That Confederate Statue in Durham Stand For?

    What Did That Confederate Statue in Durham Stand For?0

    As I watched a crowd of militant Leftists in Durham, North Carolina this week pull down a statue of a Confederate soldier, I was left not only angry but befuddled by the ignorance of it all: the vitriol of the mob focused on this seemingly inoffensive monument depicting a common soldier, seemingly war-weary and tired,

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  • What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?

    What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?1

    Last week marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous magazine covers ever. In The Gay Science (1882), Friedrich Nietzsche’s character of the madman had proclaimed, “God is dead.” The Time cover for April 8, 1966, turned this proclamation into a provocative question for a world where religious practice was waning: But, though

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  • What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?

    What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?3

    In The Gay Science (1882), Friedrich Nietzsche’s character of the madman had proclaimed, “God is dead.” The Time cover for April 8, 1966, turned this proclamation into a provocative question for a world where religious practice was waning: But, though most people have heard of Nietzsche’s “God is dead” claim, there are few who understand

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  • What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?

    What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?0

    Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in

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