Who is your preferred source for health advice? Gwyneth Paltrow? Pete Evans? Or qualified medical practitioners – like Dr Oz? I hate to break it to you, but if you’re getting advice from any of these people, you’re quite likely being misled. For example, contrary to Gwyneth Paltrow’s website, experts advise inserting jade “eggs” into
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In recent years, parents have grown increasingly concerned about the state of their children’s schools. To put it frankly, students no longer seem to be exiting our halls of learning with a thorough, well-rounded slate of knowledge. Why does this happen? A possible answer to that question was recently provided by The John Colet School
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The idea of communism – the common sharing of productive property and its resulting output – is as old as the ancient Greeks and Plato’s conception of the ideal Republic in which the guardians all live and work in common under the presumption that a radical change in the social institutional setting will transform men
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Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy, particularly relevant today, is her political activism, a viewpoint that follows directly from her metaphysical stance on the self, namely that we have no fixed essences. The existential maxim ‘existence precedes
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Washington is once again massively screwing up the American sugar market. Because American farmers cannot compete with foreign sugar growers, the federal government has maintained an array of sugar import quotas and/or tariffs for most of the last 200 years. The regulatory regime has provided windfalls for generations of politicians and jobs for legions of
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We talk a lot these days about how many students are doing poorly in school. For example, when it comes to 8th graders, the Nation’s Report Card tells us that: Only 1 in 3 are proficient in math 1 in 3 are proficient in reading 1 in 4 are proficient in civics 1 in 5
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