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Is there a Measurable Benefit to Public Art?0
- Culture
- May 3, 2016
In the Western world, it’s widely assumed that making works of art easily available and visible to the public improves people’s lives in tangible ways. Having lived in half-a-dozen major American cities and one English city, I’ve seen public art everywhere. Much of it is funded in whole or part by the taxpayers. But what,
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Is ‘More Diversity’ Really the Answer to Racial Problems?0
- Culture
- May 3, 2016
With all of the racial tension lately, is diversity really the answer to our racial problems? This seems to be the solution that the San Francisco Police Department favors at a time when it is under scrutiny for racist text messages among its officers. As Paul Elias reports for the Associated Press, “San Francisco’s police
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Do Most Humans Long to Be Ruled?0
- Politics
- May 3, 2016
Is America ripe for a dictatorial coup? It’s a question more and more pundits are asking. (We’ve also chimed in.) Why? First, it’s a presidential election year. And everyone gets a little crazy crazier during election season. But it’s more than that. Ross Douthat, writing in the New York Times over the weekend, observed that
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Born That Way? The Evolution of Humanity, Sex, & Gender 0
- Culture
- May 2, 2016
Nothing is so senseless that some person will not profess it. To cling to the greatest absurdities, indeed, has customarily been reserved for those with higher degrees in education. But today, the common man can believe in the most ridiculous things too, for he has been convinced of his great knowledge by the self-esteem lessons he has been
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Chesterton on the ‘New Rebel’0
- Culture
- May 2, 2016
Orthodoxy (1908) is known as one of G.K. Chesterton’s classics. What is truly fascinating about the work is that it is both a critique of the social and cultural changes taking place at the turn of the last century and a sort of prophecy of what was to come. Arguably, we are living in or
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4 Common Myths About the Human Brain 0
- Education
- May 2, 2016
We know that the human brain is special, how could it not be? But in what ways is it truly special? Neuroscience is here to debunk some popular myths about the human brain and what makes it so unique when compared to the brains of other animals. Here are four myths about the human brain
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Is there a Measurable Benefit to Public Art?0