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  • Shareable Snack: Carl Sagan on How Public Schools Hurt Science Education

    Shareable Snack: Carl Sagan on How Public Schools Hurt Science Education0

    Years ago, Carl Sagan warned how public schools were ruining children’s natural curiosity. Watch our video to hear him talk about how public schools hurt science education! Save this article to favorites

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  • Shareable Snack: A Firsthand Account of the Civil War and Its Causes

    Shareable Snack: A Firsthand Account of the Civil War and Its Causes64

    Julius Franklin Howell joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, Howell eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made a rare recording at the Library of Congress, in which he described his enlistment, sudden capture, and

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  • Shaking Hands Is Vital to American National Character

    Shaking Hands Is Vital to American National Character0

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently told reporters, “I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you. Not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease; it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country.” This view

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  • Shakespeare’s Sisters

    Shakespeare’s Sisters0

    It’s almost a century since Virginia Woolf wrote “Shakespeare’s Sister” in which she presented the plight of an imaginary sister of Shakespeare who is thwarted because of her sex from emulating her brother’s literary success. Frustrated by the lack of literary opportunity and finding herself pregnant, she does the only sensible thing that a woman

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  • Shakespeare: More Beneficial than Self-Help Books?

    Shakespeare: More Beneficial than Self-Help Books?0

    CBS News recently ran a brief segment featuring Ken Ludwig, a playwright and author of How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare. During the course of the interview, Ludwig explained that his purpose in writing the book was not only to get kids reading Shakespeare, but also to fill in the Shakespearean holes of the parents

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  • Shakespeare the Scapegoat: Sacrificing the Bard on an Altar of Ignorance

    Shakespeare the Scapegoat: Sacrificing the Bard on an Altar of Ignorance0

    In the aftermath of Trump’s shocking victory, the English Department at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania called a meeting of its students to discuss the election. This might seem a little odd in itself. What, one wonders, has the election to do with the studying of literature at college? One might see how the

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