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  • Why Today’s Kids Need More Time to Goof Off

    Why Today’s Kids Need More Time to Goof Off0

    Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is known world over for its deep lessons on racism and equality. In focusing on these lessons however, it’s easy to breeze by the simple, lighthearted picture with which the book opens, namely, that of children goofing off and having a good time in the summer. That lesson

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  • Why Time Speeds Up as We Get Older (And What We Can Do About It)

    Why Time Speeds Up as We Get Older (And What We Can Do About It)0

    Time seems to go faster as we age. When we were children, the school year and then the summer seemed to stretch forever. As adults, we wonder where the time went. Duke University engineering professor Adrian Bejan believes he can explain this universal phenomenon. Bejan found as we age our ability to process mental images

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  • Why Thoughts and Prayers are Better than Righteous Anger

    Why Thoughts and Prayers are Better than Righteous Anger0

    It is fashionable to “prayer shame” those who offer “thoughts and prayers” as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver an angry diatribe against gun ownership, your failure to fall in line with the politically correct position is

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  • Why Thomas Merton Renounced Communism: 6 Lessons We Can Learn Today

    Why Thomas Merton Renounced Communism: 6 Lessons We Can Learn Today0

    Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk and one of the most important Catholic writers of the 20th century. He was the author of over 60 books; the best known being The Seven Storey Mountain which is an autobiographical account of his search for faith. Published in 1948, The Seven Storey Mountain is a modern classic,

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  • Why This Pro-Life Activist Is Sentenced to Nearly Five Years in Prison

    Why This Pro-Life Activist Is Sentenced to Nearly Five Years in Prison2

    Lauren Handy was recently sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for blocking access to a late-term abortion facility in Washington, D.C., on October 2020 and live-streaming her protest on Facebook. In 2023, Handy and eight of her colleagues were found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act

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  • Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass

    Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass0

    A month from now there will be a new manufactured news story that Donald Trump is savage, represents an existential danger, or is unhinged. We will hear of another Trump official cornered and driven out from a liberal-owned Beltway or New York City restaurant. An unhinged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) will rant some more about

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