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  • Physician Explains the Most Beneficial Approach to Quality Family Time

    Physician Explains the Most Beneficial Approach to Quality Family Time0

    By now we’ve probably all heard about the father arrested for playing catch with his daughter in a park. Regardless of whether you think the lockdown should continue, be lifted, or if you’re undecided on the issue, most people would agree that this incident was a bit heavy-handed. After all, one of the good things

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  • Phubbing is a Sign You Might Have a Problem

    Phubbing is a Sign You Might Have a Problem0

    We have all been there. We’ve been slighted by the person we are speaking with as they reach for their smartphone to check a social media notification. This practice of snubbing is so common that in 2012, the Macquarie Dictionary helped to  create the new word “phubbing” (a combination of phone and snubbing) to describe

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  • Phrase of the Day: Nostalgie de la Boue

    Phrase of the Day: Nostalgie de la Boue0

    • August 4, 2015

    Tom Wolfe, probably most famous for authoring The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff, has a fascinating explanation of the phrase in his book Radical Chic. In it, Wolfe lampoons wealthy, New York socialites of the 1970s for embracing groups like the Black Panthers who ultimately wanted to upend the social order that

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  • Phoebe Liou, Informed Choice Champion

    Phoebe Liou, Informed Choice Champion4

    Phoebe Liou is a somewhat unlikely champion of informed choice for COVID-19 mandates. She’s 19, soft spoken, and has a brilliant mind that helped her be admitted to the University of Connecticut (UConn) at 16. But after winning multiple academic scholarships to her dream school, the tyranny of arbitrary and unnecessary COVID-19 mandates soon began

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  • Philosophy Prof Argues Human Nature Doesn’t Exist. Commits Logical Fallacy

    Philosophy Prof Argues Human Nature Doesn’t Exist. Commits Logical Fallacy0

    In this new article for Aeon, Ronnie de Sousa, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto, argues that the facts of evolution entail that “there is no such thing as human nature.” Instead, what we are is what we make of ourselves by our individual and collective choices. There is no prior “human

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  • Philosophy is Lost in the Dark

    Philosophy is Lost in the Dark0

    “It’s all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at these schools!” C.S. Lewis’ character Professor Digory Kirke calls to light an increasingly detrimental error concerning education in the modern era. The Great Western Tradition and the permanent ideas about education that flow out of it are grounded in a

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