In a First Things piece today, Mark Bauerlein reaffirms the thesis that a separate adolescent society has developed in American culture. It used to be that children were simply looked at as adults-in-training. Many have made the point that “childhood” is an invention of the Victorian age. But, as James Coleman noted over fifty years
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There are times when men shirk from opposing grievous error because it’s dangerous, or inconvenient, or they are temporarily blinded by it. And sometimes, it’s because it’s so damn boring. This lesson was forcefully brought home to me in an article Carl Trueman wrote for First Things last year entitled “Persistent Defiance.” In
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The all-beneficent People’s Republic of China is lifting its infamous one-child policy in favor of a two-child policy. As you can guess, the reason is largely due to the aging population of China. The Washington Post reports: “The nation’s fertility rate — 1.4 children per woman — is far below that of the United States and many
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1. “Familiarity breeds contempt, but it also breeds something like affection. We get used to the chains we wear, and we miss them when removed.” 2. “The quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth.” 3. “The source of whatever is dead, mechanical, and formal
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As the world watches the continuing migrant crisis in Europe, Hungary has quietly gone rogue by building a massive fence to keep people out of its country. The question is, did Hungary actually get it right? The Atlantic reported on October 16, 2015: Hungary will close its border with Croatia at midnight in an attempt
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For the first time in 25 years, U.S. student scores on the national standardized test have dropped. As USA Today reports, “The latest results of the biennial tests, given to thousands of students and nicknamed ‘The Nation’s Report Card,’ show a first-ever drop in math scores for the randomly selected students in both fourth- and eighth-grade students
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