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  • My Kids Don’t Eat Organic. Here’s Why

    My Kids Don’t Eat Organic. Here’s Why0

    Last summer my family joined a CSA (short for Community Supported Agriculture). We buy a share of a farm’s output over the season, pay up front, and receive a box of fruits and vegetables every week throughout the spring, summer and early fall. Part of our share includes picking a certain amount of fruits and

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  • Thomas Jefferson’s Fiction Reading List

    Thomas Jefferson’s Fiction Reading List0

    Thomas Jefferson was one of the architects of the American system. He wrote the Declaration of Independence (with a tip of the hat to John Locke), helped shape the Constitution, and was a virtual wellspring of the ideas on which the foundation of the United States was laid. While his knowledge of history and government

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  • Professor: One Reason Why Universities Became Day Cares

    Professor: One Reason Why Universities Became Day Cares0

    Last fall, university president Dr. Everett Piper made headlines when he warned students that college was not intended to be a day care, but “a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.” The realization that many of today’s university students have not grown up has caught on with the general

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  • 5 Ways to Practice Positive Skepticism

    5 Ways to Practice Positive Skepticism0

    Skepticism vs. cynicism: the modern day quest for certainty. Cynics are those who distrust most information they hear or see, and even more so when the information challenges their own system of beliefs. Because of this they tend to be intolerant of other people’s ideas. Skepticism, by comparison, is a key part of the critical

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  • Is Kleptocracy the Most Common Form of Government?

    Is Kleptocracy the Most Common Form of Government?0

    “Kleptocracy” means “rule by thieves”. People have been complaining for millennia that such is what their government is. How common is such rule? And if it’s that common, can much be done about it? In his classic book The City of God, St. Augustine lamented that the Roman Empire, having been built by force and fraud,

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  • 7 Highly Profound Quotes from E.B. White

    7 Highly Profound Quotes from E.B. White0

    1) “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” 2)

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