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  • Trouble in Paradise: Radicalizing Our Libraries

    Trouble in Paradise: Radicalizing Our Libraries11

    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges From the bookmobile that used to park weekly on our street in tiny Boonville, North Carolina to the library stacks of my college and graduate school years, libraries have always felt like a second home to me. If I drive

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  • Trolling: The Reason People Do It

    Trolling: The Reason People Do It0

    “Fail at life. Go bomb yourself.” Comments like this one, found on a CNN article about how women perceive themselves, are prevalent today across the internet, whether it’s Facebook, Reddit or a news website. Such behavior can range from profanity and name-calling to personal attacks, sexual harassment or hate speech. A recent Pew Internet Survey

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  • Trivial Schooling = More Absenteeism

    Trivial Schooling = More Absenteeism1

    If students are not being trained to be life-long learners in school, then what use is it for them to be there? They may as well skip it.

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  • Triggered: An Experiment

    Triggered: An Experiment0

    “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.” Tonight, for no reason in particular, that line drifted up from the rubbish pit of my brain, that junk yard containing such bits and pieces of poetry learned in elementary school, admonitions from my mother, swimming pool songs from high school, and old Mustang

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  • Tribal Politics Is Turning Us Against Each Other—and Science

    Tribal Politics Is Turning Us Against Each Other—and Science0

    If you’ve spent much time on a college campus you’ve probably heard the claim that conservatives are anti-science. If you’re a liberal who doesn’t interact with many conservatives, you might have believed it. If you’re conservative, you probably felt frustrated and misrepresented. This view of conservatives as anti-science has been broadcast beyond the college campus.

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  • Trial By Ordeal Was Actually an Effective Test of Guilt

    Trial By Ordeal Was Actually an Effective Test of Guilt0

    The quest for criminal justice is fraught with uncertainty. Did the defendant commit the crime, or is he a victim of incriminating circumstances? Is he guilty as charged, or has he been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor? Unsure about the truth, we often end up guessing ‘He did it’ when he might not have,

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