Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the most powerful arguments for human dignity of the 20th Century. The author is Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and a Jew, who spent about three years in concentration camps, including Auschwitz. His father, mother, brother and his pregnant wife all perished in the camps. Frankl was astonishingly
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Communism is an oppressive totalitarian ideology that strips people of every aspect of liberty, attacks religious institutions, and has resulted in the death of over 100 million people through its sordid and bloody history. With all the horrors that Communism has rained upon the globe, it’s hard to imagine it could bring any benefit to
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People with a master’s degree or doctorate can bank on a much higher starting salary than those with the same major but only a bachelor’s degree. That’s according to a recent survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. We reached the same conclusion about the payoff for advanced degrees in a
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Last week I published an article about the novel coronavirus, my ignorance, and my wonder at the fear and panic that have ensued. “There,” I thought, mentally dusting off my hands. “That’s it. No more coronavirus articles for me.” Then came Friday and my daily trip into my hometown of Front Royal, Virginia. First up on the
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As major news outlets like the New York Times have updated the number of cases of COVID-19 and confirmed deaths from it, a new trend has emerged: the death rate, measured as the number of deaths divided by the number of cases, is falling. Six days ago, on March 12th, there were 36 deaths caused by the virus in the
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Presidential debates are not debates at all. They provide candidates with opportunities to deliver their own pre-scripted messages, largely unchallenged. Ideally, presidential debate scholars agree, these events should help voters identify which candidate they agree with most on key issues, and, as other academic debate coaches put it, see how a candidate would “make decisions,
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