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  • Serious Students of History Should Watch Out for These 5 Prejudices

    Serious Students of History Should Watch Out for These 5 Prejudices0

    No one can completely avoid bringing prejudices to his or her study of history. Nevertheless, some prejudices are more insidious than others, and can be an obstacle to a fruitful use of historical learning. Drawing from the work of Giambattista Vico, philosopher of history R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) names and describes the following 5 prejudices that

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  • Serious Debate Isn’t Possible on Television

    Serious Debate Isn’t Possible on Television0

    I’ll be honest. I didn’t watch the debate last night. And I didn’t watch any of the primary debates earlier this year. And I don’t think I watched any of the debates during the last presidential election. It’s not that I’m uninterested in serious discourse about serious issues. It’s simply that I don’t believe it

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  • Serious Concerns about America’s Education System… in 1840

    Serious Concerns about America’s Education System… in 18401

    • August 10, 2015

    Many assume that America’s public education system developed organically in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. In truth, however, its origins lie in the Common School Movement led by Horace Mann in Massachusetts beginning in the 1830s. Drawing inspiration from Prussia and France, Mann envisioned and campaigned for a more uniform, centralized, and government-controlled education

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  • Serf or Slave? The Tax Man Cometh

    Serf or Slave? The Tax Man Cometh1

    On April 13th I sent a whopping check to the federal government and a lesser one to the government of Virginia. The total of these two checks equaled about 25 percent of my income. Throw in sales tax on food and goods, the tax on gasoline and heating fuel, the property tax I pay through

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  • Separatism: Did Everyone Miss a Global Trend of a Different Kind?

    Separatism: Did Everyone Miss a Global Trend of a Different Kind?0

    The year 2016 will be remembered for two stunning developments: the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president. Both of these events have been described (correctly) as a populist revolt against globalization. As scholars at the Brookings Institute noted, “It is worth emphasizing that a resistance to globalization

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  • Senators Seek to Stop Government Subsidies for Sports Stadiums

    Senators Seek to Stop Government Subsidies for Sports Stadiums0

    Two senators are calling foul on government subsidies for professional sports stadiums. Sens. James Lankford, R- Okla., and Cory Booker, D – N.J., introduced a bill Tuesday named “Eliminating Federal Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act”. “The federal government is responsible for a lot of important functions, but financing sports stadiums for multi-million—sometimes billion—dollar franchises is

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