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Yet Another Reason to Study History 0
- History
- January 6, 2016
The British author Hilaire Belloc once noted that “men are always powerfully affected by the immediate past—one might say that they are blinded by it.” When confronted with change, most people evaluate it based upon a very limited understanding of what’s considered normal. Our modern age, obsessed with diagnosis, has apparently come up with a
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Could Students Today Pass the 1919 SAT Exam?0
- Education
- January 6, 2016
With the holidays over and graduation fast approaching, many students are preparing for a final crack at the SAT. In light of this test preparation, it’s interesting to consider whether or not today’s students would be able to take one of the earliest SAT exams. Judging from the 1919 English Literature test from the College
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Let’s be honest about the Cologne assaults 0
- Culture
- January 6, 2016
Awful things took place in Cologne and other German cities over New Years. In Cologne alone, 1,000 men assaulted women to varying degrees, including rape. As the BBC reports: “City police chief Wolfgang Albers called it ‘a completely new dimension of crime’. The men were of Arab or North African appearance, he said.” Ah, yes,
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Huxley: Brave New World “Coming True Sooner Than I Thought”0
- History
- January 5, 2016
In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World—a dystopian novel imagining a future in which people live in a highly organized society that they are conditioned to accept. In 1958, in Brave New World Revisited, he looked back on his novel and reflected on how accurate its predictions of the future had been (you can read the
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This great inventor only had 5 years of formal schooling 0
- Education
- January 5, 2016
If you’re a military-history buff, you’ve probably heard the name Hiram Maxim. If you haven’t, he is credited with inventing the Maxim machine gun in 1884, which substantially changed warfare with its ability to fire 600 rounds per minute. Now, the ingenuity of the Maxim machine gun reveals that odd contradiction of progress. On one
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Chesterton and the Meaning of Education 0
- Education
- January 5, 2016
“It is typical of our time,” Chesterton wrote, “that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it
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Yet Another Reason to Study History 0