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Why (Most) Right-Wing Intellectuals Hate Trump 0
- Education
- December 26, 2018
More than two years into President Trump’s historic presidency, it behooves us to think more deeply about a persistent sticking point in the political life of the nation: Why do (most) right-wing intellectuals loathe him? This kind of nearly unified opposition cries out for explanation. After all, it is not simply that all left-wing
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10 Reasons for America’s High Divorce Rate 4
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
It’s not news that U.S. divorce rate hovers around 50 percent. It seems more and more that divorce is no longer an anomaly – in fact, it might even be considered a norm. But have you ever wondered why the numbers run so high? According to Human Intimacy, by Frank D. Cox and Kevin Demmitt,
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The Great War Christmas Truce: ‘They Were Positively Human’0
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
A 19th-century peace activist once asked, “Is it possible that any Christian, of whatever sect, who believes the New Testament to be anything better than a fable, can doubt for a moment that the time will come when all the kingdoms of the earth shall be at peace?” Jesus Christ, as both a religious and
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees 0
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish — which is not that of the child For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel Spreading its wings at the summit
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Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels 1
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
“I choose novels that let me turn my brain off,” a student confessed to me. My immediate response was to chastise her, “You did not receive a brain so that it could be turned off.” However, that evening I found myself streaming an old sitcom episode while washing dishes instead of listening to the dozen
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Three Times Keynes Was Not a Keynesian 0
- Economics
- December 20, 2018
John Maynard Keynes is, together with Milton Friedman, the most influential economist of the 20th century. His most acclaimed work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, contributed to the paradigm shift that took place in the economics profession in the mid-1930s. He’s also the most quoted economist among non-economists, who more often than
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Why (Most) Right-Wing Intellectuals Hate Trump 0