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Has the Abandonment of ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ Helped Create a Culture of Disrespect?0
- Culture
- April 20, 2016
In a recent Slate podcast, a caller posed the following question: “My question is about when professional athletes call the owner of the franchise Mr. (last name). It seems odd to me that grown men would call their boss Mr. Something when they could just call him by either his first name or his full
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5 Quotes from Harriet Tubman, the New Face of the $20 Bill 0
- Education
- April 20, 2016
As you may have heard, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew just announced his decision to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Regardless of your view on the change, one has to admit that Tubman was a remarkable woman. Because Tubman could not read or write, her story was first officially recorded in 1869 by Sarah
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Tocqueville: How Individualism is a Sign of Equality 0
- Culture
- April 19, 2016
When it comes to an emphasis on the individual, Americans lead the pack. That’s according to a Pew Research report which compared American and European sentiments on various democratic principles. Interestingly, Alexis de Tocqueville described this same tendency toward individualism nearly 200 years ago in his work Democracy in America. Individualism, Tocqueville observed, is a
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The Decline of Neighborliness 0
- Family
- April 19, 2016
It seems no amount of time passes without a headline about some couple (usually believers in the free-range-parenting movement) getting arrested and having their children taken away for perceived neglect. The case of Danielle and Alexander Meitiv of Maryland received national media attention for an incident in December of 2014 in which they allowed their
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Should Institutions Continue to Make Reparations for Slavery?0
- Education
- April 19, 2016
What do you do if you’re a contemporary institution realizing that it owes its very existence to having once profited from chattel slavery? A long and rich story in last Saturday’s New York Times describes, among other things, how in 1838, the Jesuit priests running what is now called Georgetown University sold off the plantation
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Everyone in the Developed World Owes This Man Their Life 0
- History
- April 19, 2016
While living in a developed modern nation comes with a slew of perks and benefits that allow for a certain degree of comfort when it comes to living, one of the unfortunate downsides to having superior technology reveals itself when one looks at those who use it maliciously or for destruction. Nuclear weapons are undoubtedly
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