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  • Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot

    Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot0

    In Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, there are two famous proposals of marriage, both addressed to the heroine Elizabeth Bennet. In one, the insufferable toady, Mr Collins, makes her an offer he thinks she can’t refuse; it is lustful and patronising in equal proportions. She makes several attempts to refuse him politely,

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  • I Grew Up in a Communist System. Here’s What Americans Don’t Understand About Freedom

    I Grew Up in a Communist System. Here’s What Americans Don’t Understand About Freedom0

    Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism. I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold

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  • What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress?

    What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress?0

    In his new book Enlightenment Now and in his McLaughlin Lecture at the Cato Institute this week, Steven Pinker made the point that we may fail to appreciate how much progress the world has made because the news is usually about bad and unusual things. For instance, he said, quoting Max Roser, if the media

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  • Why Young Readers Need Real Books

    Why Young Readers Need Real Books0

    A young lady I know won a Kindle in an academic contest. She is a voracious reader. In eighth grade, she enjoys Austen, Chesterton, Lewis, and Wodehouse, among many others. A trail of books seems to follow her everywhere she goes. Her parents, wary of potential negative effects of screens on growing minds, would have preferred

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  • American Parents Spend 6 Hours Per Week on Their Kids’ Homework

    American Parents Spend 6 Hours Per Week on Their Kids’ Homework0

    Given the danger of violence in school these days, it’s not surprising that concerned parents would air their worries during water cooler chit-chat throughout the work day. Such was the recent case for a relative of mine. As she relayed to me, one of her co-workers noted that homeschooling seems to be the safest education

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  • The Bath School Massacre: The Worst School Attack in U.S. History

    The Bath School Massacre: The Worst School Attack in U.S. History1

    On the morning of May 18, 1927, a school board treasurer named Andrew Kehoe blew up a schoolhouse in Bath Township, Mich., killing 44 people (38 children and 6 adults). Another 58 people were injured. Eyewitnesses later said they could hear the explosion more than a mile away. The bombing would have been much worse

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