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Preschoolers Increasingly Using Tablets without Supervision 0
- Culture
- November 2, 2015
Last December, while spending time with a classroom full of inner-city children, I struck up a conversation with 4-year-old twin boys. They proudly told me that they had each received a tablet for a Christmas gift. I was duly impressed – and alarmed. According to today’s New York Times, my alarm was justified, but my
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6 Distressing Characteristics of the “Mass Man”0
- History
- November 2, 2015
One of the most noteworthy critics of the modern age was the German academic (with a not-so-German name) Romano Guardini (1885-1968). Among others, his thoughts on technology and the environment have influenced Pope Francis, as was apparent in his recent encyclical Laudato Si. In his essay The End of the Modern World, Guardini claims that the rise
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Remembering Fred Thompson: 8 Quotes 0
- Politics
- November 2, 2015
Yesterday, former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson died at the age of 73. In addition to serving in the Senate for the state of Tennessee, Thompson was famous for his role as a lawyer in the Watergate hearings and his career as a character actor in film and television. In remembrance of Thompson, here are nine
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War of the Worlds: How the Media “Creates” News 0
- Culture
- November 2, 2015
Last Friday marked the anniversary of Orson Welles’ famous radio play War of the Worlds, which used news bulletins to tell of an alien invasion on American soil. Like many Americans, I first heard this story as a little girl and was fascinated by the mass hysteria which supposedly broke out across the country when
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The Homogenization of America 0
- Culture
- November 2, 2015
On a trip to Oklahoma I arrived at the airport and was taken to a suburban retail area for a meal. Suddenly it occurred to me that I could very well have been back in any part of the United States. Wherever I go in the USA I find the same retail developments with the
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“More Truly Educated Out of College Than In It.”0
- Education
- November 2, 2015
It seems you can’t turn around these days without seeing some type of article or list describing the top 10 ways to get into the best college or grad program. Such a mentality stems from the idea that true education is gained from an institution or organization. But by continually enforcing the idea that true
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Preschoolers Increasingly Using Tablets without Supervision 0