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Claremont McKenna College Says Students Who Disrupted Heather Mac Donald Speech May Face Repercussions 0
- Culture
- April 11, 2017
Claremont McKenna College officials have announced possible repercussions for students who protested a conservative speaker’s speech last week. Protesters successfully blocked students and professors from entering an on-campus building to hear Heather Mac Donald’s pro-police speech, as reported by The Daily Signal last Friday. Mac Donald is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think
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Boys Don’t Need Books That ‘Put Them in Touch with Their Feelings’0
- Literature
- April 11, 2017
If you listen to cultural authorities on the question of why boys aren’t readings books, you will quickly discover the problem: the politically correct experts themselves and the Children’s Literature/Industrial Complex with which they are allied. Boys, they proclaim, need books that put them in touch with their feelings. Robert Lipsyte, writing in The New York
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Are Rights Anything More Than Legal Conventions?0
- Education
- April 11, 2017
We live in an age of human rights. The language of human rights has become ubiquitous, a lingua franca used for expressing the most basic demands of justice. Some are old demands, such as the prohibition of torture and slavery. Others are newer, such as claims to internet access or same-sex marriage. But what are
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The 21-Year Drinking Age is Dumb and Should be Repealed 0
- Culture
- April 10, 2017
The national discussion on prohibition has centered almost exclusively on pot, and whether states will or should be allowed to proceed with legalization. Largely forgotten is federal legislation that incentivizes states to make it illegal for young adults—those aged 18, 19, and 20—to drink alcohol. The U.S. has one of the most stringent drinking
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Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we are suckers for it 0
- Culture
- April 10, 2017
Donald Trump appears to have a straightforward definition of fake news: Stories that are critical of him or his presidency are “fake,” while those that praise him are “real.” On the surface, the logic doesn’t hold up. But at the same time, the way Trump thinks about fake news points to a key reason why
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Student Achievement: Only as Good as the Books Read in English Class?0
- Education
- April 10, 2017
When it comes to improving education, a lot of emphasis is placed upon the STEM subjects: science, math, and the like. Proficiency in such areas, it is argued, is necessary if the U.S. wants its students to be successful on a global scale. Such a supposition may be true; however, new evidence suggests that student
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