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3 ‘Bad Loves’: When Freud and Christian Theology Actually Agree 0
- Culture
- May 5, 2016
Love is perhaps the greatest emotion humans can feel. It’s generally viewed as a positive concept, but philosophers, literature, and psychologists have long attempted to show that love of the wrong things in the wrong ways is a great vice. The philosopher Mortimer Adler, in his book The Great Ideas, identified three types of “bad
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The Woman Who Warned the World about Hitler 0
- History
- May 5, 2016
Some people can smell a rat a mile away. Others don’t notice even when the odor wafts right under their noses. Olfactory proficiency by itself doesn’t make you a hero. But if you’re among the first to pick up the scent and warn others, and then you put your political future on the line to
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The Key Thing That Differentiates Ancient and Modern Schoolteachers 1
- Culture
- May 5, 2016
In recent years, America’s schools have attempted to train teachers of the highest quality. To ensure quality, teachers are trained to know the latest and greatest theories and philosophies in child development, lesson planning, and teaching technique. But in our rush to educate these teachers in the latest and greatest education philosophies, have we overlooked
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Why feminists hate Lord of the Rings 0
- Culture
- May 4, 2016
“Ever since I arrived at Cambridge as a student in 1964 and encountered a tribe of full-grown women wearing puffed sleeves, clutching teddies, and babbling excitedly about the doings of hobbits, it has been my nightmare that J.R.R. Tolkien would turn out to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century. The bad dream
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3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books 0
- Family
- May 4, 2016
Over the years, I’ve heard a number of teachers and parents say a variation of the following: “I don’t care what the child reads, just as long as he is reading!” This statement always makes me uneasy. I can see the need to give a child interesting material, but I question the wisdom of letting
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Instead of Socialism, How About Making EVERYBODY a Capitalist?0
- Economics
- May 4, 2016
Debates about models of political economy typically polarize between advocates of laissez-faire capitalism and full-on socialism. It’s as if the only choices were (a) “every man for himself” in the free market, with little or no social safety net, or (b) government owning or running the most vital sectors of the economy, for the sake
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3 ‘Bad Loves’: When Freud and Christian Theology Actually Agree 0