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Students Skeptical of Value of College Degrees 0
- Economics
- June 3, 2016
It’s graduation season and many high school seniors are counting the hours until they can walk across the stage and turn the corner toward college and career. But as a new survey out of the United Kingdom suggests, those graduates are likely to be less bright-eyed and full of hope than graduates before them. Many
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How TV’s Drip-Feed Destroys Your Mind 0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
Many years ago, my wife and I decided to unplug ourselves from the prurience and propaganda piped into our homes via the television. It was one of the best decisions we ever made—and one of the most liberating. It freed us from hours of passive servitude to the soporific drip-feed of mind-numbing nonsense that passes
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11-Year-Old Girl Eviscerates Hollywood 0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
Today the film Me Before You, based on a 2012 novel of the same title, opens in theaters throughout the U.S. and Britain. It centers on a talented man, Will Traynor, whom a motorcycle accident made quadriplegic; he no longer finds life worth living and commits suicide calmly, with a bit of help, after much
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How Middle Easterners Treated European Refugees during WWII 0
- Education
- June 3, 2016
At the peak of World War II, when Adolf Hitler’s war machine still seemed destined to create his dream of a Third Reich, hundreds of thousands of Europeans found themselves without safe haven. It was April 1941. Hitler and Stalin had already divvied up Poland, and the Germans had swallowed most of Western Europe. On
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Why Are So Many Female Teachers Sleeping With Students?2
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
I posed this question on my Facebook page a few days ago: “Is there much/any social science on the phenomena of female teaches suddenly sleeping with students?” This was shortly after news broke that a 24-year-old Texas teacher was on the lam for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student who had also impregnated her, according
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Disgusting: Anti-Trump Protesters Show who is Violent and Hateful 0
- Culture
- June 3, 2016
Things are clearly getting heated in politics with the arrival of Donald Trump. Since the Chicago, anti-Trump protests broke out in violence, the subsequent anti-Trump protests seem to be escalating in violence whether in New Mexico, San Diego, or San Jose. The most recent videos are filled with physical assaults against pro-Trump individuals, destruction of
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Students Skeptical of Value of College Degrees 0