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  • Universities Are Embracing Segregation Again (Just Don’t Call It Segregation)

    Universities Are Embracing Segregation Again (Just Don’t Call It Segregation)0

    Earlier this week, it was announced that San Francisco State University would offer segregated housing for African-American students. CBS SFBayArea reports: New student housing designed for African-American students and culture is coming to San Francisco State University. African-American students make up just under 6 percent of the campus population and it’s unclear how many dorm

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  • Is It Racist To Want Stricter Border Controls?

    Is It Racist To Want Stricter Border Controls?0

    After last week’s post about the potential end of Europe as we know it, today I want to share with you a piece from the New York Times about the reaction of people in Denmark to the rise in Muslim migration there over the last two or so years.  The article interviews a number of

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  • Mediocrity: The Force Driving Parents to Homeschool?

    Mediocrity: The Force Driving Parents to Homeschool?0

    It’s no secret that homeschooling has been on the rise in the U.S. What’s more surprising, however, is how homeschooling is spreading throughout the United Kingdom… and Saudi Arabia… and other countries as well. The latest news on the homeschooling front suggests that this educational practice is set to gain momentum in another foreign country:

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  • Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

    Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious0

    In 1614, when the telescope was new technology, a young man in Germany published a book filled with illustrations of the exciting new things being discovered telescopically: moons circling Jupiter, moon-like phases of Venus, spots on the Sun, the rough and cratered lunar surface. The young man was Johann Georg Locher, and his book was

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  • A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up

    A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up3

    • September 21, 2016

    By now, most of you are familiar with the ad hominem logical fallacy. Latin for “against the man,” it’s the practice of personally attacking one’s opponent rather than his or her argument. In this blog I’d like to introduce a brand new logical fallacy that I frequently see committed today. I have dubbed it the

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  • The ‘Sick’ Reason Students Are Reading Less and Less

    The ‘Sick’ Reason Students Are Reading Less and Less0

    A couple of years ago, Common Sense Media reported a dramatic increase in the number of children who rarely – if ever – read. In 1984, just under 10 percent of children ages 13 and 17 reported doing so; by 2012, those numbers had risen to 22 percent and 27 percent respectively. So why aren’t

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