As an anthropologist, I know that all groups of people use informal practices of social control in day-to-day interactions. Controlling disruptive behavior is necessary for maintaining social order, but the forms of control vary. How will President Donald Trump control behavior he finds disruptive? The question came to me when Trump called the investigation of
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In a unanimous decision yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vindicated Ocheesee Creamery’s free speech rights when it reversed a district court’s decision that prevented the creamery from telling its customers the truth about the products it sells. Ocheesee Creamery is a small, all-natural dairy farm located in rural Florida that
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On “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently blasted what she called the “apologetic attitude” many liberals seem to have toward Islamism and Islamic terrorism. Hirsi Ali, who was raised Muslim in Somalia but has renounced her former religion, said the Islamist playbook is simple: indoctrination, intimidation, and force. She said Western efforts to appease
READ MOREEver wonder how many books you’ll have read by the time you die? We may never know the answer to that question, but we might be able to guess how many we have remaining. A recent article in Quartz highlights just that in two fascinating graphs. Based on the number of books the average American
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The 2017 World Happiness Report, a list of 155 countries ranked according to multiple measures of personal and collective welfare, was recently released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a United Nations initiative. According to the report, the countries with the happiest inhabitants are Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand,
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It’s no secret that the U.S. has a mediocre education system. When ranked against other first-world nations, it’s not hard to see that a continuation of such trends will eventually leave America flailing in business, industry, and innovation. But is there a way to remedy this problem of labor force ingenuity – even without improving
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