When it comes to texting, the period, full stop, point – whatever you call it – has been getting a lot of attention. People have begun noticing slight changes to the way our smallest punctuation mark is deployed, from declarations that it’s going out of style to claims that it’s becoming angry. What they’re actually
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Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical introductory classes in applied ethics are part of the training that nurses, scientists and soldiers undergo. Ethical education is ubiquitous, even though it may not always involve complicated theoretical debates – but should it include a dose of philosophy? There are powerful reasons for
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When I was in 6th grade, my mother bravely invited 10 of my friends to a local church kitchen and taught them how to make apple pie. If such a scenario leaves you envisioning a scene of mass destruction, you’d be close. After all, our casualties that day only included one upset bowl of cinnamon
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Even after all these years of experience, socialism still has a reputation for being a humane alternative to capitalism. It’s preposterous because socialism means controlling or stealing people’s property, whereas capitalism mean nothing more or less than the freedom to own, accumulate, and trade property. But that’s not all that socialism means. It also means
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I can’t recall an election in which the two leading candidates were more reviled in both breadth and depth. The rejoinder I keep hearing is that 2016 is the Lesser of Two Evils Election. The data bears this out. A poll conducted in May by the Washington Post found that 57 percent of people
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