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  • Hello, Norma Jean. Goodbye great books

    Hello, Norma Jean. Goodbye great books0

    Students enrolling at a prominent Australian university this week will be able to choose an elective that is likely to leave all the competition for dead. A course designed to tie in with an art exhibition at neighbouring galleries offers La Trobe undergraduates credits for studying the famous blond bombshell of the 1950s, Marilyn Monroe.

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  • Why It’s Harmful to Reward Children for Everything

    Why It’s Harmful to Reward Children for Everything1

    Rewarding children for good behavior has become commonplace in the American family. But in a recent piece for The Atlantic, Psychologist Erica Reischer cautions that reward systems can be surprisingly harmful to children and their families. Using the example of the ubiquitous sticker chart, Reischer writes that the system of children earning their way to

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  • Do Millennials Take Employment for Granted?

    Do Millennials Take Employment for Granted?0

    By now, you may have heard of Talia Jane, the young woman who posted an open letter to the CEO of Yelp/Eat24 on Medium a few days ago. The letter explained that despite her college education, she found herself a young, starving, twenty-something struggling to live on a Yelp/Eat24 salary of a little more than

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  • George Washington’s Secret to Successful Government

    George Washington’s Secret to Successful Government0

    Searching for the perfect president is quickly becoming the main goal of 2016. But as we continue on the elusive quest for an ideal 45th president, perhaps we would benefit from examining the first: George Washington. While Washington had a number of ideas on what made a nation and its government great, one idea in

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  • Why Political Debate Today is Incoherent

    Why Political Debate Today is Incoherent0

    Among political philosophers, the most common critique of “liberalism” (not to be confused with modern “liberalism”) is not its concern for liberty, fairness, tolerance, and related values, but its public promotion of such values without recourse to any underlying, philosophical view of reality. We’re supposed to simply see the kind of open, secular, republican polity

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  • The Cult of Niceness

    The Cult of Niceness0

    More than twenty-five years ago, in The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom pointed out that college students in the United States had become very “nice.” Students in general did not want to offend anyone and there was a constant concern to protect one another’s feelings. Bloom meant this as a half-hearted, even backhanded

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