It’s telling of our times when Americans have to be told to do the simplest of tasks. It’s also telling when they have to be told how to do that same task. Such is the case with a back to school memo recently released by professors from Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. Their simple advice? Think
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When Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced yesterday the Trump Administration’s repeal an Obama-era rule limiting the distribution of certain military equipment (such as tracked vehicles, camouflage uniforms, high-powered rifles, bayonets, and grenade launchers), he dismissed concerns about police militarization as “superficial.” The evidence suggests otherwise: militarization makes police more violent. Earlier this year, a study conducted by researchers from
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The New Yorker, one of the last great literary publications still in existence, recently ran a fascinating interview with Mark Lilla. For those unfamiliar with Lilla, he is a professor at Columbia who caused a bit of a fuss last November when he wrote an article for the New York Times imploring fellow liberals to
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A fascinating piece of research related to father loss is highlighted by an article at Family Studies. Most studies of the effects on a child losing his or her father through death, divorce or incarceration, rely on survey questions to measure health. But the new research, published in the US journal Pediatrics this month, took
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Do you believe that anyone who disagrees with your beliefs is the enemy? Would you ever don the white “glory suit” of the KKK or the balaclava and black hoody of Antifa? Would you ever hold this sign? Would you ever stand with this group? Can you fill yourself with such rage that you would
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In a country based on the principle of liberty, should we really contemplate depriving people of freedom because they sometimes don’t make choices experts think are best for them? My title really understates the liberty-depriving philosophy of the nanny state. More accurately, it is: Some people make what we think are bad choices, so we
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