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The Debt We Owe to Suffering
- Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized
- August 15, 2025
Last week, thousands of teachers gathered in Houston for the National Education Association’s (NEA) annual convention. During the convention, any group of 50 delegates could bring to the floor a new business item, which is a one-year, non-binding resolution directing the union to take a certain action. Over 160 new business items were proposed, including New
READ MORE“Struggle sessions” were a form of public humiliation and ideological re-education used during Maoist China. They involved mass gatherings where counterrevolutionaries and other enemies of the Communist Party were subjected to criticism, verbal abuse, and physical humiliation. The aim of a struggle session was to force the dissenter to confess their supposed wrongdoings and embrace
READ MOREIn a league dominated by black athletes, the term “owner” is out of vogue when referencing executives of NBA franchises due to its perceived racial connotation of evoking America’s history of slavery. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told TMZ Sports stopping the use of the word “owner” makes sense. “We moved away from that term years
READ MOREThere’s a persistent temptation for modern societies to identify education with formal schooling. America seems to have fallen into that temptation. Education today is almost wholly associated with school, and improvements to education are focused on raising proficiency scores, helping students meet “standards,” and designing a more efficient system. It is often claimed that
READ MOREAre Americans becoming angrier and more aggressive as drivers?
READ MORECamille Paglia, an American college professor and social critic, is one of a kind: a feminist who objects to almost every form of feminism known to womankind; a sexual radical who believes in complete freedom of sexual expression, yet a realist who insists that women have to take full responsibility for the sexual choices they
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