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Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Teaching ‘Values’0
- Education
- May 8, 2017
America’s public schools are getting worse, and part of the reason why is that they have taken on too much responsibility. This point was made by the famous historian Jacques Barzun in his preface to his 1983 book Teacher in America: “There [in public schools], instead of initiatives to develop native intelligence and give it
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Why Millennial Women Want to Date Older Men 1
- Culture
- May 8, 2017
The recent Vanity Fair article detailing the more lurid underbelly of online dating—the barrage of dick pics, the endless swiping, the death of romance—was grim, if not horrific. Dating, Vanity Fair would have you believe, is evolving into an elaborate charade of deception: Everybody is petrified of giving someone the “wrong idea.” Men are impolite
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Oregon Man Fined $500 for Questioning Traffic Light Timing 0
- Politics
- May 8, 2017
If Galileo or da Vinci, the famed Italian polymaths, lived in modern day Oregon, they might well be the targets of a lengthy and expensive inquisition by the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying for the unlicensed practice of engineering for engaging in mathematical criticism. That is because neither became state-licensed
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Physician: Raising Happy Kids Shouldn’t Be the Main Goal 0
- Culture
- May 5, 2017
In the years when I spent a good deal of time sitting beside the piano, coaching kids of all ages to count, to curve their fingers, and to phrase their music properly, I heard a common refrain over and over. That refrain was often uttered by the parent of the child, and went something like
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What’s So Bad about the Empire?0
- Culture
- May 5, 2017
Everyone familiar with Star Wars knows that the Empire is bad, and the Rebellion is good. But, why? Seriously. What makes life under Emperor Palpatine so unbearable, and what would make life under the New Republic so much better, for the ordinary citizens of the galaxy? The movies offer surprisingly little information as to what’s actually
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Moral Outrage as Compensation for Guilt: An Explanation for 21st Century Campus Violence 0
- Culture
- May 5, 2017
The worst American campus violence since my college days at the University of Michigan in the late 60s and early 70s begs the question: Why? It’s not just the violence at places like Berkeley and Middlebury, but also students’ increasingly aggressive demands to keep conservative speakers away, create safe spaces, publish trigger warnings, and protect
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Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Teaching ‘Values’0