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  • Why More Parents Need to Say ‘No’ to Their Children

    Why More Parents Need to Say ‘No’ to Their Children0

    When I was around 5 years old, a neighbor friend of mine had a huge, Victorian dollhouse. She never seemed all that interested in it, but I thought it was beautiful. So much so, that in the years following, I would often look longingly at similar dollhouse kits at the local craft store. Alas, the

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  • Why More Gun Control Laws Won’t Stop Las Vegas-type Massacres

    Why More Gun Control Laws Won’t Stop Las Vegas-type Massacres0

    To minimize the chances of another horrific massacre like that in Las Vegas, imaginative risk assessments must be made and acted on by ordinary citizens, organizations that sponsor events, and state and local authorities. The most ineffective, irrelevant reaction would be for Congress to enact yet more gun control legislation. While the federal Gun Control

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  • Why More Colleges Are Turning a Blind Eye to Cheating

    Why More Colleges Are Turning a Blind Eye to Cheating0

    Imagine that you’re the president of a community college. To justify your institution’s existence and your enviable salary, you must convince the board of trustees that the institution is meeting—possibly even exceeding—certain productivity benchmarks: for instance, a threshold number of new enrolments, solid graduation rates and satisfactory retention of students from year to year. The

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  • Why moral education should involve moral philosophy

    Why moral education should involve moral philosophy1

    Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical introductory classes in applied ethics are part of the training that nurses, scientists and soldiers undergo. Ethical education is ubiquitous, even though it may not always involve complicated theoretical debates – but should it include a dose of philosophy? There are powerful reasons for

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  • Why Modern Man Doesn’t Feel at Home

    Why Modern Man Doesn’t Feel at Home0

    The average American moves about 12 times in his life, changes jobs every 4.6 years, and commutes about 15 miles to work each way. In addition, the areas in which most of us live change dramatically and rapidly due to urbanization and development. According to philosopher Roger Scruton, this hyper-mobility is causing modern man to feel displaced: “[I]f we are

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  • Why Modern Education is Doomed to Die

    Why Modern Education is Doomed to Die0

    One of the great transitions in education in the past fifty years has been the increased emphasis on the so-called STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and a corresponding diminishing of the place of the traditional liberal arts or humanities, especially literature, history and philosophy. This has been due in part to

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