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  • Why the U.S. Must Become an ‘Aspirational’ Society Once Again

    Why the U.S. Must Become an ‘Aspirational’ Society Once Again0

    When a society feels that the solution for poverty is for the poor to have the opportunity to become rich through hard work and self-improvement, you have an aspirational society. The United States could be classified by this term once upon a time, but in more recent years it has morphed into an envious society

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  • Why the U.S. is Consistently the Most Generous Nation in the World

    Why the U.S. is Consistently the Most Generous Nation in the World0

    Years ago, an MBA student of mine had immigrated from Albania after growing up under Communism. She shared with her classmates what she observed to be the most unexpected mindset difference between Americans and Albanians. She got emotional as she explained how in Albania, charity was rare—caring for anyone other than yourself and your family

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  • Why the U.S. Education Secretary is Wrong on Homeschooling

    Why the U.S. Education Secretary is Wrong on Homeschooling0

    At a recent breakfast for reporters, U.S. Secretary of Education John King was asked for his opinion on homeschooling. The Secretary’s most worrisome concern about the movement? A lack of socialization. Education Week reports: “[King] worries that homeschoolers may not get the kind of interaction with other adults or much experience with their peers, ‘unless

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  • Why the Sudden Frenzy Against Plastic Straws?

    Why the Sudden Frenzy Against Plastic Straws?0

    If you took a nice summer vacation, you might have missed the latest frenzy in American political culture: the huge movement to ban plastic straws. It’s real. Several cities in California have passed “straw-on-request” laws. Companies such as Starbucks have promised to eliminate them in two years, though one wonders how paper is going to

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  • Why the Straw Man Fallacy Is Everywhere Today

    Why the Straw Man Fallacy Is Everywhere Today0

    • November 8, 2017

    Straw men are easy to push over. So are people’s arguments when we oversimplify them, reducing them to a flimsy caricature of what their proponents actually mean. Hence the name for this particular logical fallacy: the straw man fallacy. Boston College professor Peter Kreeft writes that it “consists in refuting an unfairly weak, stupid or

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  • Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History

    Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History2

    In the opening monologue of the much-beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the milkman compares life for the Jewish inhabitants of the village Anatevka to the balancing act required of a fiddler scratching out a tune on a rooftop. According to Tevya’s famous allegory, the people of Anatevka are able to keep their balance

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