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  • Let a Thousand Home Businesses Bloom

    Let a Thousand Home Businesses Bloom0

    • April 16, 2014

    Imagine you’re out of work. But you’ve got capital in your talents, your home, and your family and friends. You might try to start a microbusiness at home to earn a little extra income and make ends meet. That is, unless you live in certain U.S. states. Making Dough at Home A few years ago,

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  • Lessons in Humanity From Prehistoric People

    Lessons in Humanity From Prehistoric People4

    In ancient cultures some children were born with Down syndrome and other genetic disorders. But our prehistoric forebears treated them with great respect. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of researchers who studied the DNA of human remains in ancient burial sites. Their global study involved screening DNA from about 10,000 ancient

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  • Lessons in Community From the Jasper Marching Band

    Lessons in Community From the Jasper Marching Band6

    It is in our small towns, tossed and scattered across the heartland—these local communities from which my band so proudly hails—that we find our greatest opportunity to salvage the American republic.

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  • Lessons from Weimar Germany for the Portland Extremists

    Lessons from Weimar Germany for the Portland Extremists0

    • August 19, 2019

    Immediately following the conclusion of the First World War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was thrust into a state of economic, political, and social disarray. The infantile German state, which had recently been established in 1871, struggled to maintain its reputation as a global superpower. Kaiser Wilhelm II chose to abdicate

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  • Lessons From the Zombie Genre

    Lessons From the Zombie Genre0

    Imagine a zombie. What does your zombie look like? How does it move? What does it eat? How does it spend its day? What if any hobbies does it have? More likely than not, you probably pictured a zombie of the George A. Romero variety: a slow-moving reanimated corpse that feasts on the flesh of

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  • Less Schooling, More Apprenticeships

    Less Schooling, More Apprenticeships0

    Apprenticeships first appeared in the later Middle Ages as an opportunity for young people, usually between the ages of 10 and 15, to gain practical skills and on-the-job training from a master craftsman. These adolescent apprentices came of age immersed in authentic experiences and surrounded by adult mentors.   The term “adolescence” comes from the

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