Recently, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing about the American welfare system. In the opening statements, Representative Charles Boustany stated: “This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service estimates that we currently operate over 80 programs that provide food, housing, healthcare, job training, education,
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If you’ve lived the single life for any length of time, you’ve likely received marriage advice from those who’ve walked down the aisle before you… or maybe even from those who have not. John Adams fell into this latter category when he recorded the following exchange with Hannah Quincy in his diary in 1759: Hannah
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Did you see the New York Times article describing the stressed, rushed, and tired state of two-parent working families? The piece was based on a recent Pew Research survey which examined the attitudes of working fathers and mothers. As I looked through the survey, I couldn’t help but feel badly for working mothers. A majority
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America was destined to become a country that vacillates between individualism and collectivism. At least, that’s the argument of University of Notre Dame political science professor Patrick Deneen in his persuasive essay “Unsustainable Liberalism.” As Deneen explains, America was founded upon the philosophy of liberalism (not to be confused with the progressive form of liberalism
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If done right, humor can be a great educator. Perhaps some of you have seen these before, but they escaped my attention until I came across them on a friend’s Facebook page today. They’re faux attacks on modern philosophers made to look like today’s political attack ads. They’re hilarious, and a fun introduction into the
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Today’s simplicity movements are ostensibly a reaction against materialism. However, they can easily slip into materialism themselves. That’s the point David Brooks makes in his latest column for the New York Times entitled “The Evolution of Simplicity”: “One of the troublesome things about today’s simplicity movements is that they are often just alternate forms of
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