It’s extremely frustrating and happens all too frequently: You’re having a conservation with someone over a point of disagreement, and the other person quickly gets angry. End of conversation; end of dialogue. What causes this to happen so often? Why do differences over politics, morality, and worldviews often devolve into anger and hurt feelings? Why
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Though gorgeously written in its own right, 1984 also benefitted from the timing of its release, at the very end of the Second World War and at the beginning of the Cold War. Though a delusional love affair existed between the West and the Soviet Union in 1943, disillusionment and reality set in in the few
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In the continuing aftermath of the sex attacks in German (and other European cities) on New Year’s Eve, the writings of Valerie Hudson, a professor at Texas A & M University are receiving quite a lot of attention. Hudson studies the effects of sex ratios on the stability of nations and she has written an
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In case it wasn’t already apparent that life is not fair, yet another study has shown that attractive people have it better. According to NPR Ed, a recent study at Metropolitan State University of Denver found that good looking women received higher grades from professors. Researchers had outside observers rate students’ physical attractiveness based on their
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January 15th marks the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the great leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. As the quotes below illustrate, Dr. King promoted a traditional understanding of education in which students learn to think for themselves while simultaneously developing in virtue. Are today’s schools failing to give students the kind
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The West stands for secular law while Muslims want to impose a religious Sharia law, right? Not so fast, says Remi Brague, professor of philosophy at the University of Munich. In his essay “Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible?”, Brague argues, “The two conceptions of law that face each other [Western and Muslim] both rest on a common
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