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Philosopher Explains Why We Protest. All. The. Time.0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
I arrived to work this morning to news that 40 or 50 protestors had blocked a local highway during rush hour in protest of last week’s killing of Philando Castile. Similar protests are taking place across the country, yet protests have become so prevalent that we tend to scarcely notice them unless it directly
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Soaring Child Care Costs: Is there an Alternative?0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on the soaring cost of child care for American families. As the WSJ explains, “the cost of child care and nursery school has increased nearly twice as fast as overall inflation since the recession ended” in 2009. Particularly striking is the change in child-rearing costs between 1960
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T.S. Eliot Summed Up Modern Education in 2 Paragraphs 0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
A very wise man once noted that there is nothing new under the sun. Perhaps it is for this reason that many who have gone before us are able to frame the issues of our day with such prophetic clarity. T.S. Eliot is no exception. In 1932, Eliot wrote an essay entitled Modern Education and
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Bush’s Dallas Speech Was Clutch 0
- History
- July 13, 2016
The slaying of five Dallas police officers in the wake of police shootings that left two African American men dead has been a difficult time for America, to say the least. The anguish resulting from these tragedies has been accompanied by a surge of anger, blame, and distrust from people of all races. The country
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Marvel Kills Bruce Banner, Retires Tony Stark in Diversity Purge 0
- Culture
- July 13, 2016
Say goodbye to Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, comic book fans. The iconic characters were replaced with a more diverse cast this month. News of Bruce Banner’s demise broke Wednesday. The Hollywood Reporter has the story: Marvel Entertainment’s summer comic book storyline Civil War II has claimed the life of another hero — and it’s
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The strange history of ‘Mein Kampf’ in France 0
- History
- July 12, 2016
Seventy years after the death of Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” is in the public domain and free to be republished. The history of its English version is relatively well-known, thanks to historians James and Patience Barnes. Its history in French is not. While French journalist Antoine Vitkine wrote a 2009 global history of “Mein Kampf”
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Philosopher Explains Why We Protest. All. The. Time.0