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  • Unruly students could be ruining your child’s future

    Unruly students could be ruining your child’s future0

    Teachers, parents, and researchers have long recognized that unruly students in classrooms can impact the quality of education for other pupils, but it has been difficult to estimate their impact. In The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers(NBER Working Paper No. 22042), Scott E. Carrell, Mark Hoekstra, and Elira Kuka report that classroom disruptions lead to more than just short-term lower grades

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  • Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Ongoing Assault on the United States

    Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Ongoing Assault on the United States1

    What I know about China I’ve learned from websites and online commentaries. In short, I don’t know much. But retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding does. Spalding, the author of a new book, War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for World Domination, discusses China’s policy of unrestricted warfare in a recent episode of The Epoch

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  • Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?

    Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?0

    My Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is no longer new – it was published in 1986 – most of the time my online dictionary suffices. Once in a blue moon, however, I flip open my trusty Webster’s. The word I was hunting this time was psychosis, which this faded red volume defines as “fundamental mental derangement (as paranoia)

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  • Unmasking Marble and Bronze

    Unmasking Marble and Bronze0

    Protests and looting were supplanted last week by an orgy of more symbolic destruction. Statues of various figures from our civilization’s past – Christopher Columbus, a Texas Ranger, numerous confederate Civil War memorials, and even Philadelphia’s Frank Rizzo – have been toppled, defaced, or scheduled for removal by compliant officials. In the same spirit, a

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  • Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes

    Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes0

    Lawful gun owners accounted for just 18 percent of gun violence, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. Researchers analyzed 762 cases in which a gun was recovered by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Firearm Tracking Unit (FTU). “Most perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to

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  • University Shouldn’t Punish Me for Not Addressing Male Student as ‘Ms.’

    University Shouldn’t Punish Me for Not Addressing Male Student as ‘Ms.’0

    Returning from a sabbatical in my 21st year at Ohio’s Shawnee State University, I resumed teaching my regular political philosophy course. Taking questions in one such class at the end of my first day back, I acknowledged a male student with a “Yes, sir?” (It’s my practice to address my students in this way and

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