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Engineering Programs Are Now Teaching Social Justice 0
- Education
- August 4, 2017
We engineers like to solve technical problems. That’s the way we think, that’s why we chose our major, that’s why we got into and stayed in engineering. There are several other reasons why we got into engineering. One of them was the absence of what I describe here as “social engineering,” where the professor/instructor is interested not
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Why Vegetarians Should Be Prepared to Bend Their Own Rules 0
- Philosophy
- August 4, 2017
It’s a common enough scenario. A vegetarian has been invited to a friend’s place for dinner. The host forgets that the guest is a vegetarian, and places a pork chop in front of her. What is she to do? Probably her initial feelings will be disgust and repulsion. Vegetarians often develop these sorts of attitudes
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I Don’t Want Anyone Forced to Bake Me a Cake 0
- Culture
- August 4, 2017
Being a gay libertarian is like being a black conservative: you are a pariah among your peers. It couldn’t be clearer in the Charlie Craig and David Mullins V. Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which the Supreme Court will hear soon. Back in 2012, the plaintiffs went to the defendant’s bakery to have a cake for their
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Survey: Parents are Clueless about the Poor Education Their Children are Receiving 0
- Education
- August 4, 2017
There’s a longstanding mystery when it comes to the relationship between America’s schools and the parents who send their children to them. Evidences of this mystery have been apparent in a running Gallup poll which asks Americans to rate public schools. On a national level, Americans think public schools stink. Criticism decreases considerably, however, when
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Are Huge Schools Sucking the Life Out of Our Kids?0
- Education
- August 4, 2017
I’ve been fascinated with the concept of the one-room school ever since I watched television episodes of Little House on the Prairie in my preschool years. Admittedly, my early fascination stemmed from the romanticism of wanting to be like Laura Ingalls. But as I grew older and that romanticism faded, the interest in one-room schools
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Are Most Christians Today Not Really Christians?1
- Religion
- August 4, 2017
Thomas Jefferson was a deist that believed the ultimate value of Christianity was in its ethical teachings. So he famously created his own Bible by literally cutting and pasting passages from the Gospels that agreed with his doctrine and omitting those passages (such as the miracles and mentions of the supernatural) that conflicted with it.
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Engineering Programs Are Now Teaching Social Justice 0