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  • Rethinking the Burning Question of Cremation

    Rethinking the Burning Question of Cremation0

    It has been pointed out that death is now the taboo which sex once was. While having become numb to the latter, to the former we have become utterly prudish. The increasingly widespread practice of cremating the dead is good evidence in favour of this thesis. Our acceptance of cremation reveals that we no longer

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  • Rethinking Education: Time to Make Some Changes

    Rethinking Education: Time to Make Some Changes2

    Recently I visited my daughter, her husband, and the grandkids in rural Pennsylvania, where they live in a large 140-year-old house. A short walk away is Gregory the Great Academy, grades 9-12, where my son-in-law Mike works and where my oldest grandson is a student. The 60-some boys in the school receive a classical education

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  • Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend

    Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend0

    Ever been disheartened by the scores of cars you see in mall parking lots while driving home from Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma’s? The recent push to expand Black Friday onto the Thanksgiving holiday itself seems to signal that the days of rest, quietness, and family time are over. But after a few years of this

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  • Resuscitating Civility in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Death

    Resuscitating Civility in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Death22

    In “The Soul of Civility,” Alexandra Hudson makes a sharp distinction between civility and politeness. Politeness and manners are the form, the technique, of an act, but civility is more. … Instead of focusing on the form alone, civility gets to the motivation of an act. Civility is a disposition that recognizes and respects the common humanity, the fundamental personhood, and

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  • Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children

    Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children1

    Last week, my sons’ school went into lockdown. It wasn’t a drill. There was a real threat. Two high school-aged students, a boy and a girl, were discussing an alleged fight on social media when one of them wrote, “I’m shooting up the school at 9.” Thankfully, someone reported this information to the school, and the

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  • Restricting Trade on Endangered Species Just Makes Things Worse

    Restricting Trade on Endangered Species Just Makes Things Worse0

    Every year humans buy and sell hundreds of millions of wild animals and plants around the world. Much of this commerce is legal, but illegal trade and over-harvesting have driven many species toward extinction. One common response is to adopt bans on trading in threatened or endangered species. But research shows that this approach can

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