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  • John Paul Stevens Is Wrong About the Second Amendment, History, and School Violence

    John Paul Stevens Is Wrong About the Second Amendment, History, and School Violence0

    Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens penned an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday, advising that gun control activists at recent demonstrations have not gone far enough in their demands for more restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. According to Stevens, it isn’t enough to deny millions of young

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  • John Money, David Reimer, and the Dark Origins of the Transgender Movement

    John Money, David Reimer, and the Dark Origins of the Transgender Movement3

    The other day I asked my colleagues if they had ever heard of John Money. “No,” they replied, “who is he?” They’re not the only clueless ones. I’ll wager that most millennials don’t know the man who invented the terms “gender identity,” “sexual orientation,” and “gender role.” Unfortunately, the story behind those terms is a

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  • John Milton’s Lucifer: The Reason People Like Him

    John Milton’s Lucifer: The Reason People Like Him0

    In an article for The Atlantic on March 16, Edward Simon endeavors to get to grips with the fascination that Americans feel for the character of Lucifer in John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost. In a well-written and well-reasoned article, Simon sees aspects of Milton’s Satan in the characterization of thoroughly modern anti-heroes in contemporary

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  • John Locke’s 3 Tips for Raising Financially Independent Children

    John Locke’s 3 Tips for Raising Financially Independent Children0

    Compared to general life expectancy standards, my paternal grandfather died at quite a young age. I was only four when cancer took him down in a matter of weeks, so I don’t remember much about him. Yet in spite of this limited time, he did one thing which, in retrospect, was quite influential on my

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  • John Locke on Religious Tolerance

    John Locke on Religious Tolerance0

    John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. The English philosopher’s ideas are at the core of the American Founding; in fact, it can be argued that his thoughts shaped the minds of the American Revolution more than any single thinker. While Locke is best known for his treatises on

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  • John Dewey and the Progressive Case for Homeschooling

    John Dewey and the Progressive Case for Homeschooling1

    The philosopher and public intellectual John Dewey (1859-1952) is widely known among progressive K-12 educators, education policy gurus, and university education faculty for such groundbreaking ideas as learning-by-doing, inquiry-driven curricula and the democratic classroom. If you want to upset these Dewey fanboys and girls, tell them that John Dewey was an apologist for homeschooling. In

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