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10 Facts on Motherhood and Children in the Middle Ages 0
- Education
- June 20, 2016
Jeffrey L. Singman is a historian who writes about everyday in life in history. Over the weekend, I finally got to cracking his book The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe. The book offers a great glimpse into life in the Middle Ages from the perspective of people who weren’t kings, popes, bishops, lords
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What U.S. Students Miss by Not Learning Latin 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2016
Although it’s not primetime news in the U.S., a 15 year-old student from Athens, Georgia, recently made international waves when he became the first American to win the Certamen Ovidianum Latin competition in Italy. Josiah Meadows took home $1,000 in cash and other prizes for translating a passage from Ovid and then writing an essay
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‘Just Be You’: Our Culture’s Sad Embrace of Moral Anarchy 3
- Culture
- June 17, 2016
Earlier this week, traveling back home from California and during a layover at Dallas/Fort Worth, I decided to draw some cash from an ATM near my departure gate. The company dispensing the cash was Chase Bank, a subsidiary of the multinational corporation, JP Morgan Chase. On the screen, in an affront to the millions of
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Jo Cox: looking at refugees with a mother’s heart 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2016
The tragic death of British Labour MP Jo Cox yesterday brought to light a powerful speech that she made in April asking the government to accept thousands of child refugees. Mrs Cox, 41 and the mother of two young children, was murdered by a crazed loner wielding a gun and a knife while she was visiting her
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Americans are dying at a greater rate 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2016
Over the last couple of months we’ve brought you grim news from the USA. First there was the story of the rapid rise in the mortality rate of middle aged white Americans mainly driven by suicide, drugs and alcohol. Secondly, there was last month’s report on the rise by 24% in the suicide rate of all Americans from 1999
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When Democrats Were Opposed to a Centralized, Bureaucratic Education System 1
- Education
- June 17, 2016
Today’s Democratic Party in America is considered the foremost advocate of a centralized, bureaucratic, and high-spending public education system. But in 19th-century Massachusetts, where our current public education system originated, the opposite was the case. It was the Democratic Party that was the major opponent of the spread of the government’s tentacles over education. This
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10 Facts on Motherhood and Children in the Middle Ages 0