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Why Books are the Best Furniture 0
- Culture
- January 25, 2016
My son walked in from school the other day, a new book from the library tucked under one arm. “What’s the book about?” I asked. “A book on the Alamo,” he replied. “The librarian said it was beyond my level.” “What did you say?” I asked. “Ahhhh . . . I just took it out
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Are Schools Increasingly Becoming Re-Education Camps?0
- Politics
- January 25, 2016
Apparently the new government of the Canadian province of Alberta has decided that its schoolchildren need to be re-educated about what ‘family’ means. As Charlotte Allen quips: “It used to be: ‘Heather has two mommies.’ Now, it’s: ‘Heather has two non-gendered and inclusive caregivers.’” Allen continues: Here’s the pertinent language from the rainbow-adorned ‘Guidelines for Best
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The Educational Magic of Lego 0
- Culture
- January 25, 2016
Over the weekend, the U.K. Telegraph announced twenty unique job openings. The title of the job descriptions? Lego builder: “The job specification says the candidate: ‘Must have Lego building experience and be able to design and build sturdy, accurate, complicated, safe and installable Lego models for a wide variety of Legoland attractions including miniature scale
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Why Traditional Sexual Morality No Longer Makes Sense 0
- January 25, 2016
When it comes to sexual morality, many things that were once considered illicit in the West are no longer so. Divorce and remarriage, contraception, pornography, homosexuality, and various other sex-related activities have become acceptable. Much has changed in just the past one hundred years. So what happened? It’s commonly assumed that dispensing with traditional sexual
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Some Americans Think MLK is Endorsing Trump for President 0
- Culture
- January 25, 2016
We’ve long suspected that American students are being given the short end of the stick on subjects such as reading and history, while gaining heavy instruction about diversity in race, class, and gender. But if the video below is any indication, it would seem that Americans aren’t learning much history about diversity either. The video,
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Aristotle on Real vs. False Courage 0
- Culture
- January 22, 2016
It seems there is no shortage of problems promising to plague Americans in the coming months. Like the six hundred in Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, there are (pardon the parody): “Riots to the right of them, ISIS to the left of them, Diving Wall Street in front of them” In the midst of
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Why Books are the Best Furniture 0