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Crazy = Thinking Student Loan Debt is a Path to Success?0
- Culture
- July 7, 2016
A Forbes article recently caught my eye by proclaiming that it is possible to retire in your 30s and travel the world. The article by Laura Begley Bloom went on to describe 33-year-old Anita Dhake, who is already enjoying retirement after spending a handful of years as a lawyer. Because many of us (myself included)
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How Equality Destroyed the Carnegie Family 0
- Economics
- July 6, 2016
Oh, how Andrew Carnegie adored creative destruction! How much he hated the past! His 1886 book, Triumphant Democracy,[1] a breathless paean to “the Republic,” feels like a prayer, spoken as much in numbers as in words. Among the words of his prayer, none charms like Equality—none possesses a more explanatory power or expresses such warm devotion. Even
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8 Penetrating Quotes from Elie Wiesel 0
- Culture
- July 6, 2016
1) “Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.” 2) “If you ask me what I want to achieve, it’s to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.” 3) “Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.” 4) “I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in
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Professor: ‘Textbooks are enemies of education’1
- Education
- July 6, 2016
The PreK-12 education system is becoming increasingly centralized. As I’ve pointed out before, the number of school districts in America has decreased by over 90% since FDR’s New Deal. With this increased centralization—and the standardized tests that have come with it—teachers have lost a lot of autonomy over their classrooms and what gets taught in
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The 7 Deadly Sins: Then & Now 0
- Culture
- July 6, 2016
Today’s culture rarely references the seven deadly sins rooted in Christianity that had been known to nearly all men of the West for almost 2,000 years. Occasionally, one of the sins may be referenced in pop culture, but to my knowledge the most recent popular reference to them was the movie Seven (1995), a grisly
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Does Gender ‘Equality’ Degrade Both Sexes?0
- Culture
- July 6, 2016
If you’ve noticed that men are increasingly getting a bad rap in today’s world, you’re not alone. According to Washington Post journalist Cathy Young, men are routinely blamed for almost any habit or trait they have – whether good or bad. Such an attitude, Young says, is damaging not only to men, but for women
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Crazy = Thinking Student Loan Debt is a Path to Success?0