The College Board just released a report on the results of the 2016 SAT test. One startling feature of the report included a historical timeline of students’ critical reading scores over the last 40-plus years. In 1972, this score was 530. By 2016 it had fallen to 494. There are undoubtedly many drivers behind this
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When it comes to sociopaths, many people have the image of some prominent sociopathic character from a TV series, like Tony Soprano or Dexter Morgan. The truth is that these characters aren’t accurate depictions of the sociopaths you’ll meet in everyday life. Not every sociopath is keen on murdering people. The scary part is that
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Last week, I came across an article that cited nine reasons that millennials don’t want to have kids. And even though its tone was more similar to that of a childish rant than an article (so much so that I won’t even link to it here), it did bring up a lot of holdups that
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Until recently, American political culture settled into a comfortable middle ground on matters of race. People knew what to say and how to say it, more or less. It was all very polite. Everyone obeyed the rules. This way you could stay out of trouble and avoid one of the most devastating accusations that could
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I was reflecting today on the life of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha. According to Buddhist myth, Siddhartha was born under a prophecy that he would either become a great military ruler or a supremely enlightened holy man. His father wanted the former, so he raised Siddhartha in a bubble of sorts, filling his
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