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  • Chicago Low-Income Housing Voucher: $4,000/mo.

    Chicago Low-Income Housing Voucher: $4,000/mo.0

    Whatever one’s opinion on government helping low-income or no-income individuals have roofs over their heads, it’s probably safe to say that most people would be outraged by a government program that gives some people nearly $4,000/mo. for housing while others get less than $1,000/mo. Too extreme to believe? Here’s what Chicago’s Sun Times is reporting:

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  • Exclusive, Racist, Judgmental, and Dull: Cities are the New Suburbs

    Exclusive, Racist, Judgmental, and Dull: Cities are the New Suburbs0

    The taxes are too high. The people indulge in groupthink. There seems to be a system in place to prevent free thought, free action, and free movement. Everyone is more preoccupied with fitness than having a good time. Racism is a problem. When did America’s cities become like 1950s suburbs? I recently moved out of

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  • The West’s War on Children

    The West’s War on Children0

    The world has now seen several decades of something quite new: explicitly anti-child policies. By this one might think I am referring to the “one-child” policy in China. And to a certain extent I am. Fines and the withholding of education and other services, not to mention forced abortions, rather comfortably fit within any definition

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  • Why Children Should be Encouraged to Build Things

    Why Children Should be Encouraged to Build Things0

    Several years ago, a little boy I know set out to make and enter a project in the state fair. He gathered his supplies, came up with a design, and forged a hand-crafted knife – blade and all. While his creation was quite impressive, the state fair was not amused and refused to let him

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  • How the Clock Changed the World

    How the Clock Changed the World2

    When people reflect on how technology has changed our lives, they usually think about the car, the television, or the computer. But according to historian and philosopher Lewis Mumford, it’s really the invention of the mechanical clock that changed everything. In his 1934 classic Technics and Civilization, Mumford laid out a fascinating argument why “the

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  • The Best and Worst Story you will Read Today

    The Best and Worst Story you will Read Today0

    An older and troubling yet uplifting inside story of an abandoned assisted living home comes from NPR’s StoryCorps: “When an assisted living home in California shut down last fall, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go. The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except

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