In 1614, when the telescope was new technology, a young man in Germany published a book filled with illustrations of the exciting new things being discovered telescopically: moons circling Jupiter, moon-like phases of Venus, spots on the Sun, the rough and cratered lunar surface. The young man was Johann Georg Locher, and his book was
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It’s no secret that homeschooling has been on the rise in the U.S. What’s more surprising, however, is how homeschooling is spreading throughout the United Kingdom… and Saudi Arabia… and other countries as well. The latest news on the homeschooling front suggests that this educational practice is set to gain momentum in another foreign country:
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Disney made headlines last year when the company laid off some 250 employees and then required them to train their replacements—immigrants on temporary H-1B visas—if they wanted to receive their severance package. (Two of the former Disney workers are now suing Disney.) McDonald’s, America’s most iconic fast food chain, reportedly has taken a similar course.
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After last week’s post about the potential end of Europe as we know it, today I want to share with you a piece from the New York Times about the reaction of people in Denmark to the rise in Muslim migration there over the last two or so years. The article interviews a number of
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By now, most of you are familiar with the ad hominem logical fallacy. Latin for “against the man,” it’s the practice of personally attacking one’s opponent rather than his or her argument. In this blog I’d like to introduce a brand new logical fallacy that I frequently see committed today. I have dubbed it the
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On April 15, 1968, Harriet Glickman, a schoolteacher and mother of three, wrote a short letter to cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated less than two weeks before. Much of the momentum of the Civil Right Movement seemed lost. Glickman explained to Schulz that she felt a need to
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