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  • Children Are Now Being Euthanized in Belgium

    Children Are Now Being Euthanized in Belgium0

    Three minors have been euthanised in Belgium since euthanasia for children was legalised in 2014. According to the latest report from the government agency (PDF in French) which tracks euthanasia deaths, the children were 9, 11 and 17 years old. Two died in 2016 and 1 last year. Under the existing law, their request for death has to be

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  • How Generation Z Became America’s Most Intolerant Generation

    How Generation Z Became America’s Most Intolerant Generation2

      The post-millennials have arrived. As the oldest millennials turn 37, demographers have designated a new generation for those born after 1996, Generation Z. The oldest members of this cohort just graduated from college and had their first (legal) alcoholic beverages. As they wind their way through college, post-millennials will change higher education, just as previous generations

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  • Venezuela’s Nightmare: 5 Reasons It’s Likely to Get Worse

    Venezuela’s Nightmare: 5 Reasons It’s Likely to Get Worse0

    “It’s time for a coup in Venezuela.” That statement appeared in Foreign Policy magazine on June 5, two weeks after Nicolás Maduro was re-elected as Venezuela’s president on May 20 in an election widely considered to be rigged. José R. Cárdenas, the former Bush administration official who wrote it, argued that “the United States and

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  • 3 Nobel Prize-Winning Contributions to Economic Science (From People Who Weren’t Economists)

    3 Nobel Prize-Winning Contributions to Economic Science (From People Who Weren’t Economists)0

    Since it was introduced in 1968, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to 79 individuals for their contributions to different branches of economics. Yet not all of them were economists by training. Here are three contributions that earned their authors the Nobel Prize in a field that wasn’t initially theirs. 1.

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  • Free Student Seminar: America’s Founding Principles

    Free Student Seminar: America’s Founding Principles0

    According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) only 12% of high school seniors are proficient in U.S. History. If that number isn’t bad enough, 55% of seniors lack just a basic understanding of U.S. History and only 1% are considered advanced in their knowledge of U.S. History. Yes, it’s that bad. We wish we could snap our fingers and fix

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  • 3 Things You Need to be Friends with People You Disagree With

    3 Things You Need to be Friends with People You Disagree With0

    I spent the past weekend relaxing with old friends. While it was a busy weekend, we had plenty of time to catch up. Over the course of the weekend, we discovered how much we have changed in just a few years. We live very different lives and hold very different—I would even say opposing—views on

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