The Electoral College has now done its work and confirmed the results of the presidential election. But not before another election in which the candidate who received the most votes lost and caused it to become the object of a debate about the legitimacy of its role in a democratic republic. The appropriateness of the
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Last Christmas, family practice doctor Leonard Sax made waves when he declared that parental authority is in decline in America. According to Sax, parents have increasingly allowed their children to call the shots in deciding how they want to live their lives, instead of parents being the ones running the show. As psychologist Lisa Damour
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A friend of mine recently relayed the story of how his daughter came home from kindergarten saying “excuse you” to anyone who sneezed. “I think you mean ‘God bless you,’” he gently prompted her. “No, my teacher says to say ‘excuse you’ when someone sneezes,” came her response. According to news out of Pennsylvania, sneezing
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Out of the number of books I read for the first time this year, I’d have to say that Jane Austen’s Persuasion was probably one of my favorites. For those unfamiliar with the book, Persuasion centers around the life of Anne Elliot, a quiet, but intelligent, single woman in her late twenties. Surrounded by superficial
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Today’s assassination of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, is already drawing some ominous comparisons. Karlov was gunned down on Monday evening in Turkey’s capital of Ankara as he delivered a speech at an art exhibit. In the video of the attack, the shooter, off-duty police officer Mevlüt Mert Altintas, 22, could be heard
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