Ever wonder what your life would be like if you suddenly dropped some of the habits that you do regularly? As a person who drinks coffee pretty much every morning, the notion can be a tough one to stomach. Maybe even more so for the person who enjoys having a few beers every night after
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One of the purposes of university is to challenge the opinions of students. This requires freedom of thought and a variety of voices. But academic departments today, especially in the social sciences, are far more liberal or progressive than the population at large. Conservative views are notably underrepresented. One survey even suggests that approximately 20
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In Des Moines last year, President Obama told gatherers at a town hall that one of the primary benefits of college is that it challenges the assumptions and ideas of young minds. Or at least college should do that. Look, the purpose of college is not just…to transmit skills. It’s also to widen your
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U.S. GDP was revised down to 1.1 percent growth in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday. This comes after the U.S. economy grew by just .08 percent in the first quarter, so pundits are beginning to publicly muse on what’s wrong with the U.S. economy, which has not cracked 3 percent annual growth
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In my last article, I lambasted the historians at National Geographic for their bias in the list of “the most influential figures of ancient history.” I asked why they favored secular rulers whose “influence” consisted of brute force and manipulation, i.e. military conquest and Machiavellian realpolitik. The National Geographic list was a litany of “mighty
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