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Iowa Results: What do you think compared to 2008?0
- Politics
- February 2, 2016
By now you’ve probably had enough time to digest the news from the 2016 Iowa caucuses. From here until New Hampshire, the pundits will be offering their deep insights while the partisans will be attempting to read the tea leaves in favor of their candidates. As we look back at the 2008 campaign season, it’s
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No, Controlling Immigration isn’t Fascism 0
- February 2, 2016
Long before the world learned of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, countries controlled their borders. They did so in different ways, but ultimately it was to protect their own national interests, including their economic strength, culture, ethnicity, religion, security, etc. When it comes to the term ‘fascism’, George Orwell’s comments about the word’s use
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5 Reasons to Go Back to One-Room Schools 0
- Education
- February 2, 2016
A number of years ago when I first started college, I sheepishly broached my English professor with a thesis for my freshman research paper: the revival of one-room schools in America. Her wholehearted approval and my subsequent research brought the realization that such an idea wasn’t as far-fetched as I’d first thought. Apparently, others in
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A Tough Question on Race and Culture from a Reader 0
- Culture
- February 2, 2016
Every week we get requests from readers to share something with the audience or to ask the audience a question. Depending on the material or the question, occasionally we’ll act on it. If we don’t, it doesn’t mean we won’t, we’re probably just behind in our writing. Shortly after we shared stories about Martin Luther
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Everyone is Prejudiced 0
- February 2, 2016
In his book The Enemies of Reason, scientist Richard Dawkins proudly proclaimed, “Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence.” His sentiment expresses the modern intellectual ideal of reasoning freed from the trappings of any prejudices or biases. The problem is: no such thing exists. The word “prejudice” literally means to have judged something beforehand. Prejudices
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Another Lesson from Rome: Taxation, Bureaucracy, and the Rich vs. Poor 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2016
Parallels in history are never perfect, nonetheless lessons can be learned. In Mediaeval History: Europe from the Second to the Sixteenth Century (1935), Carl Stephenson, a professor of history at Cornell University, provides a captivating account of Rome’s decline in the late 3rd century as seen in monetary policy, taxation, and how the burden was
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Iowa Results: What do you think compared to 2008?0