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  • Retina Scans at Airports Have Arrived

    Retina Scans at Airports Have Arrived0

    For some 15 years, airport security has become steadily more invasive. There are ever more checkpoints, ever more requests for documents as you make your way from the airport entrance to the airplane. Passengers adapt to the new changes as they come. But my latest flight to Mexico, originating in Atlanta, presented all passengers with

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  • Not Everything Is Political

    Not Everything Is Political0

    Many readers have probably heard, and a few may even have used, the slogan: “the personal is the political.” Though its original source is unclear, it first cropped up in the late 1960s and early 1970s (see this paper) within “second-wave” feminism. Back then, it had a legitimate point: women’s personal experiences and choices are

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  • How Historical Illiteracy Fuels Political Polarization

    How Historical Illiteracy Fuels Political Polarization0

    Greater knowledge of the past would help improve America’s public discourse. Once again, President’s Day has come and gone and Americans spent little time reflecting on their past leaders—in part, because Americans know so little history at all, even about the country’s most well-known Founding Fathers. For example, in a 2012 survey commissioned by the

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  • College Sex Assault Investigations Are Scary

    College Sex Assault Investigations Are Scary0

    Grant Neal was in a bind. The sophomore athlete was being investigated by officials at Colorado State University-Pueblo for possible violations under Title IX—the federal statute that universities use to investigate students suspected of sexual misconduct. The allegations stemmed from a relationship Neal had with an athletic trainer. The trainer, identified as Jane Doe in

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  • Are Pre-K Advocates Overlooking Its Problems?

    Are Pre-K Advocates Overlooking Its Problems?0

    In recent years, support for preschool education has grown by leaps and bounds. After all, who wouldn’t want to help adorable little kids get an early jump on success? But the enthusiasm for Pre-K dampened a bit with the release of two studies, one from 2012 which studied children in a Head Start program and

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  • Why So Many College Grads Are Bartenders

    Why So Many College Grads Are Bartenders0

    Imagine you are offered a job to work 60 to 70 hours a week as an English graduate assistant, teaching those who need to be taught and doing some research at a salary of about $15,000 a year. You love to teach and you care about people, so you take the job. You begin to

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