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In August, Treasurer Scott Morrison warned that “Australia has a generation growing up expecting government handouts”. Researchers have labelled this the “Me Generation”. Some even say we are facing a “me, me, me epidemic”. So why have today’s young people become more narcissistic? According to research, the decrease in young people’s levels of empathy is
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Increasingly, it seems, professors are waking up to the fact that their universities are no longer places of learning. The latest to come to this realization is Dr. Ron Srigley, professor of classical political philosophy/religion/literature at the University of Prince Edward Island. He recently penned a lengthy essay on the subject for the Los Angeles
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Less than five years after winning a Pulitzer Prize for exposing surveillance abuses in U.S. intelligence agencies, Glenn Greenwald increasingly finds himself accused of being a stooge of Vladimir Putin. The latest accusation comes from Claus Wilke, a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas, who tweeted on Sunday that Greenwald was a
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Via the Washington Post: A college professor found himself in hot water after likening the Black Lives Matter movement to the racism of the Klu Klux Klan. Douglas Muir, an adjunct professor for the University of Virginia, wrote in a Facebook comment that Black Lives Matter is the “biggest” racist organization since the KKK. The
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The millennial generation is often considered to be one of the most educated in recent history. But as some college professors have been discovering, their education is not one of factual, truth-filled knowledge. Instead, it is one based on fancy, but contradictory terms, feelings, and a general lack of reason. Faulkner University law professor Adam
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Growing up, I was taught that fairness and justice required giving people their due. This meant that achievement and merit were the universal criteria for reward. Particular criteria such as gender, race, sexuality, and ethnicity should not matter, for to exclude people on these grounds would be bigotry. How times have changed! Now our official
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