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Schools Once Taught Biblical Literacy. Should They Do So Again?0
- Culture
- April 3, 2018
Over the weekend, columnist Christine Emba commented on an interesting typo from The Wall Street Journal. As Emba explains, the WSJ quoted Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the prophet Moses carried water from the country Iraq, rather than a regular rock, thus convoluting the famous miracle from Israel’s days in the wilderness. The mistake naturally
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Bad Language Gets a Tenured Female Professor Fired for ‘Sexual Harassment’0
- Culture
- April 3, 2018
Tenure used to provide faculty members with solid protection against all but criminal behavior. But now it is proving no match for weak excuses for firing professors who administrators want to be rid of. Marquette University’s termination of political science Professor John McAdams for speaking his mind about a younger faculty colleague’s handling of a
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John Paul Stevens Is Wrong About the Second Amendment, History, and School Violence 0
- Culture
- April 3, 2018
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens penned an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday, advising that gun control activists at recent demonstrations have not gone far enough in their demands for more restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. According to Stevens, it isn’t enough to deny millions of young
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Venezuela’s President Tackles Economic Crisis by Deleting 3 Zeros From its Currency 0
- Economics
- April 3, 2018
It seems that Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro has finally found the way to bring the country out of the unprecedented economic crisis Venezuela is immersed in since 2012. The ineffable leader of the Bolivarian Revolution has recently announced the launching of a new currency, the so-called Sovereign Bolivar, which will replace the bolivar as the
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Most Marital Difficulties Stem from One Thing: Ego 0
- Culture
- April 2, 2018
A paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that those who consider their spouse to be their best friend are twice as satisfied with their lives overall. The study controls for pre-marital well-being levels, age, gender, income, and health status. What is a best friend? Foremost, Melanie Curtin opines, “a best friend
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Rebuilding community starts with rebuilding family?0
- Culture
- April 2, 2018
In 1965, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D) published what is commonly known today as The Moynihan Report. For anyone studying the decline of community and the rise of destructive social pathologies, it is a must-read document that has been proven prescient over the years. As the Report focuses primarily on the Black community, Sen. Moynihan
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Schools Once Taught Biblical Literacy. Should They Do So Again?0