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  • Childhood Chores are a Predictor of Success

    Childhood Chores are a Predictor of Success0

    I think it’s pretty common for parents to think that their kids’ success in life will be guaranteed by things like learning their A-B-Cs at age one, enrolling them in a host of extracurricular activities and making sure they have all the latest gadgets. But according to the research (as pointed out in this WSJ

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  • Conservatives Attempt a Last Stand Against Trump

    Conservatives Attempt a Last Stand Against Trump0

    I’ve said before that conservatives were showing symptoms of a negative identity—one that criticizes rather than offers a positive vision; one that says what it’s not rather than what it is. Yesterday’s National Review issue has seemingly confirmed that diagnosis. In a feature titled “Conservatives against Trump,” NR has amassed condemnations of Donald Trump from

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  • Scientists Can’t Avoid Philosophy

    Scientists Can’t Avoid Philosophy0

    • January 22, 2016

    For the past generation or so, more and more physicists have been asking and speculating on questions traditionally thought of as philosophical. Much of that is summed up in journalist Jim Holt’s witty, absorbing book Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story (2013). However, a certain subset of those physicists—the best-known being Stephen

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  • Religion is Down, Spirituality is Up

    Religion is Down, Spirituality is Up0

    An interesting conundrum was raised by Pew Research earlier this week. Writing for Pew, David Masci and Michael Lipka noted that although religion is on the decline in America, the number of individuals who experience “spiritual peace and well-being” and “wonder about the universe” has seen a dramatic increase in the last several years. “The

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  • The Books That Influenced C.S. Lewis as a Child

    The Books That Influenced C.S. Lewis as a Child0

    In a lecture delivered in 1954, C.S. Lewis (1893-1963) told his audience, “I myself belong far more to that Old Western order than to yours… I read as a native texts that you must read as foreigners.” In saying this, he did not intend to be arrogant; rather, he was simply making a point about

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  • 7 Surprising Quotes from Margaret Sanger

    7 Surprising Quotes from Margaret Sanger0

    Today’s society openly advocates respect for those of various races, classes, and physical capabilities. Such was not always the case, however, particularly in the years before World War II when eugenics was popular. One fan of eugenics practices was leading feminist Margaret Sanger. The quotes below provide an interesting window into her views on the

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