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  • Can we stop making terrorists and shooters famous?

    Can we stop making terrorists and shooters famous?0

    When 19-year-old Adel K and his fellow jihadist entered the Eglise St. Etienne in a Normandy town on Tuesday armed with knives, they could be sure of one thing: whatever happened, they would be famous. The mere attempt to kill a priest as he finished celebrating Mass would get them world headlines since they were Muslims and

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  • Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men

    Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men2

    A basic premise of the apprenticeship model is that people best learn by example.   Thus, if you want to become a skilled piano player, you study for years under a virtuoso. If you want to be a good electrician, you work under a master electrician for a period of time. And if you want

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  • Book Learning Is Not Enough

    Book Learning Is Not Enough1

    In his preface to The Closing of the American Mind, professor Allan Bloom describes the main goal of education as a mission to help students answer the question, “What is man?” As Bloom goes on to note, many individuals believe that the answer to this question is found in extensive book learning. But Bloom believes

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  • What Young America learned about Islam

    What Young America learned about Islam0

    Currently much controversy surrounds Islam and its compatibility, or lack thereof, with the Western world. To some, Islam is a religion of peace whose adherents desire nothing more than the way of life enjoyed by others in Western nations. To others, Islam has a strong undercurrent of violence and fundamentally conflicts with Western values of

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  • Is Social Media Tearing Us Apart?

    Is Social Media Tearing Us Apart?0

    It feels like 1968. How do I know this? Because everyone is saying so. (If you don’t believe me, look at this.) To be fair, there is grounds for the comparison. In 1968, the country was torn by urban violence, civil unrest, and (domestic) terrorism. College campuses were hotbeds and protesting was all the rage.

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  • Chicago: 75% of Murdered Are Black, 71% of Murderers Are Black

    Chicago: 75% of Murdered Are Black, 71% of Murderers Are Black0

    After hearing about a woman attempting to start a sex-strike in Chicago, ultimately based on the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata, to end the gun violence, we thought it would be good to dig into the numbers a little bit. We wish we hadn’t.  Simply put, Chicago has a massive Black-on-Black murder problem. All of the

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