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  • Psychologists: Boredom is Good for Children

    Psychologists: Boredom is Good for Children0

    When I was eight years old, a little girl near my age moved into the house across the street. She, my sister, and I clicked immediately. The girl was, however, an only child with two working parents. As such, she spent her summers in a profusion of camps and activities, leaving little time for play.

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  • Ladies: The Draft is Coming

    Ladies: The Draft is Coming0

    UPDATE: The section of the Senate legislation, detailed below, that would have required women to register for the draft was later removed. However, the question of drafting women for miliary service remains alive, as in February of 2019, federal judge Gray Miller ruled that “the all-male military draft is unconstitutional.” The New York Times reports: In the latest and

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  • Fathers: Not as Worthless as We’ve Been Told

    Fathers: Not as Worthless as We’ve Been Told0

    Over 300 years ago, philosopher John Locke presented a little nugget of advice for fathers in his work called Some Thoughts Concerning Education. He noted: “The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge, which would be of more advantage to them, than an hundred rebukes and chidings. Would your

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  • Did Truman Capote Write ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?

    Did Truman Capote Write ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?3

    Over cocktails a few weeks ago, I was discussing literature with friends. Conversation inevitably swung to which book had the strongest claim as “the Great American Novel.” Huck Finn immediately sprang to my mind, which I quickly changed. It’s a tie, I said. Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. A no-brainer. Neither

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  • Are Criminals Born Bad?

    Are Criminals Born Bad?0

    The father of modern criminology, the 19th century Italian sociologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), believed that criminality was genetically determined. “Born criminals” could be detected by the presence of a long list of “stigmata” such as an asymmetrical faces, sloping forehead, large ears or even left-handedness (very sinister!). Criminals were atavistic biological throwbacks, reversions to an

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  • 4 Signs of Low Self-Esteem

    4 Signs of Low Self-Esteem0

    Do you have low self-esteem? If you are like many people, your immediate reaction is probably, no. After all, you don’t beat yourself up mentally and emotionally, you don’t think that you are incapable, and you don’t feel worthless. Well, these are all good things, but they don’t necessarily prove that low self-esteem isn’t a

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