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  • Superficial Tolerance Isn’t Helpful

    Superficial Tolerance Isn’t Helpful0

    • June 15, 2016

    I have to admit, I’ve always been annoyed by the “COEXIST” bumper sticker, a picture of which I’ve included above. It’s not that I wholeheartedly disagree with the message. I do indeed believe that people of different religious faiths should be peaceful toward each other. But at the same time, there’s an underlying sentiment to

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  • Did Truman Capote Write ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?

    Did Truman Capote Write ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?3

    Over cocktails a few weeks ago, I was discussing literature with friends. Conversation inevitably swung to which book had the strongest claim as “the Great American Novel.” Huck Finn immediately sprang to my mind, which I quickly changed. It’s a tie, I said. Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. A no-brainer. Neither

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  • 13 Virtues in the Ben Franklin Code of Morality

    13 Virtues in the Ben Franklin Code of Morality0

    I recently wrote how Ben Franklin had a strong aversion to church services, despite the fact that he believed in God. This posed a practical problem to him. Franklin took morality seriously and he found himself wondering how he could possibly complete his “bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection” minus the structure

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  • Ladies: The Draft is Coming

    Ladies: The Draft is Coming0

    UPDATE: The section of the Senate legislation, detailed below, that would have required women to register for the draft was later removed. However, the question of drafting women for miliary service remains alive, as in February of 2019, federal judge Gray Miller ruled that “the all-male military draft is unconstitutional.” The New York Times reports: In the latest and

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  • Fathers: Not as Worthless as We’ve Been Told

    Fathers: Not as Worthless as We’ve Been Told0

    Over 300 years ago, philosopher John Locke presented a little nugget of advice for fathers in his work called Some Thoughts Concerning Education. He noted: “The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge, which would be of more advantage to them, than an hundred rebukes and chidings. Would your

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  • Washington on the 3 Qualities a President Should Have

    Washington on the 3 Qualities a President Should Have0

    On June 15th, 1775, the newly formed American Congress appointed George Washington as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. As was the case when eventually elected as America’s first president, Washington’s letters to family and friends demonstrate his extreme reluctance in accepting such an honorable, but demanding, position. The following letter to his friend Colonel

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