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Americans are Embracing Bad Government Because They Don’t Know History 0
- Culture
- October 19, 2016
Recent news has proudly informed us that U.S. graduation rates are rising. Unfortunately, rising grad rates don’t tell the whole story. If one truly wants to know how American students are doing in school, a look at the Nation’s Report Card might offer a better picture. Those numbers tell us that not even half of
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Argument: The Christian God Doesn’t Seem Like Such a Good Father 0
- Philosophy
- October 19, 2016
Is God a “good Father”? My answer: No. At least, not as many people conceive God. Consider two claims that I hear about God quite often: Claim 1: God does not owe us anything. Claim 2: All glory, honor, and praise must go to God alone. It seems to me that when these claims appear alongside of
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Manners, Like Markets, Are Beautiful 0
- Culture
- October 19, 2016
There was a strange moment in the second debate when a question was posed to both candidates. Donald Trump deferred to Hillary Clinton for the answer because, he said, “I am a gentlemen.” Sure, he might have spoken ironically or even facetiously (really Donald?), but most people had a vague sense of what he meant.
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Without Self-Education, the West Will Probably Die 0
- Education
- October 19, 2016
In one of my favorite scenes from the movie Seven, Morgan Freeman’s character gets a guard to let him into a library late at night so he can conduct research. While the five members of the library’s night staff are sitting around a desk playing cards he says to them: “Gentlemen, gentlemen… I’ll never understand.
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The Absurdity of Political Correctness Has Reached New Heights 0
- Culture
- October 18, 2016
A few years ago, I put together an amusing collection of stories comparing truly bizarre examples of political correctness and bureaucratic idiocy in the United States and United Kingdom. I was especially impressed (in a you-must-be-joking fashion) that a British job placement office got in trouble for discrimination because they sought “reliable” and “hard-working” applicants.
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10 Things Americans Fear More Than Anything Else 0
- Philosophy
- October 18, 2016
Over the weekend, I picked up one of those rectangular things made up of course paper that has words and images printed on it. What do you call it – ah, yes, a newspaper. The article touched on a Chapman University survey released last week that drew upon a random sample of 1,511 adults from
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Americans are Embracing Bad Government Because They Don’t Know History 0