Recently I spoke with a friend who expressed some angst that his 12-year-old son was primarily interested in reading fantasy novels. Efforts to introduce the lad to higher forms of literature were proving more difficult than he’d expected. Not to worry. Fantasy novels and science fiction yarns, I said, are often gateways to the higher
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Earlier this week, my colleague Daniel Lattier made the following claim: “When fewer men farm, civilization dies.” He went on to show that the decline of agricultural society – both in ancient Greece and Rome – was linked to the decline of virtuous living which the small family farm promoted. The small family farm is
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Four classically liberal professors and an economist named Adam Smith walk into a room. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke; it was the first event of the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas conference held last week at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte. The annual conference, now in its third year, was
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Via the College Fix: The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary. The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive. Instead of using “man,” employees are told to use
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Funny man Seth Rogan apparently pushed the boundaries of comedy too far in Sausage Party, a computer-animated comedy starring himself, Salma Hayek, Kristen Wiig, and a dozen other Hollywood funny people. The film features a taco (Hayek) who develops feelings for a hotdog bun (Wiig). Get it? The movie is causing a bit of a
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