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If I was to name one of the more interesting and unpredictable parts of my week, it would have to be the handful of hours I spend volunteering in a children’s program in the inner city of Minneapolis. The kids I see week after week come from a variety of backgrounds, but if classified according
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In a speech given at a recent forum, Harvard University scientist Steven Pinker described the decline of free speech at colleges and universities. The prominent psychologist and author was asked why intolerance seems to come more often from the left on campuses. He offered a simple answer. “Because surveys show that overwhelmingly professors and students
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Working as a telecom construction project manager on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, Steve Wenger was reluctant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. But the reservation was hit hard by COVID, and its residents put a lot of pressure on him to get the jab. So, in May 2021, Wenger, now 56, got the Johnson &
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Steve Jobs was a great visionary. But just how far did his vision extend? If you examine the history of the iPhone, it turns out his vision didn’t extend as far as we might think. In his book Digital Minimalism, computer science professor Cal Newport reveals that the original vision Jobs had for the iPhone
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In 2010 Steve Jobs created a bit of a sensation when he decided to ban from Apple devices any app that was deemed pornographic in nature. “Folks who want porn can buy an android,” Jobs famously wrote to one customer. So what did Jobs have against porn? Walter Isaacson, in his highly impressive 2011
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Since Donald Trump got into office and appointed school choice supporter Betsy DeVos as the national education secretary, a good deal of ink has been spilled on the issue of school vouchers. On the one hand, vouchers seem to promise a better choice and education for students at a lower cost. On the other hand,
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