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What ‘Fixer Upper’ Taught Us About Marriage 0
- Culture
- October 3, 2017
In their years on HGTV’s show, Fixer Upper, hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines achieved far more than merely getting Americans to embrace open floor plans and shiplap; they made marriage look fun again. The Texas couple’s decision to end the show after soon-to-be-aired Season Five ensures it won’t devolve into them simply playing certain roles,
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What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education 0
- Education
- October 3, 2017
A new biography of Leonardo da Vinci has a lot to say about what it is to be a truly educated person. Biographer Walter Isaacson, who also wrote recent well-regarded biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Steve Jobs, hones in on the most important aspect of da Vinci: His love of knowledge for its own
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When It Comes to Religion, Do Dan Brown and C.S. Lewis Agree?0
- Culture
- October 3, 2017
Ahead of the release of his new book Origin, famed author Dan Brown was interviewed by CBS. During the course of the interview, the issue of religion came up and Brown was asked to elaborate on his views of this explosive subject. In response to whether he was “anti-religion,” Brown replied: “Absolutely not. Religion does
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Conservatives Strike Back Against ‘Ideological Tidal Wave’ in School District 0
- Education
- October 3, 2017
It’s widely believed that there is a strong liberal bias in America’s public school system. Yet, by all accounts, most conservative-minded Americans still send their children to the local public schools, in spite of a growing ideological divide in this country. But why? Some do it because of economic necessity; others, because they place a
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Schools Are Now Seeking ‘Racially Conscious’ Teachers 0
- Culture
- October 3, 2017
In the fall issue of Thinking Minnesota, Katherine Kersten offers a deep-dive look into the social justice activism that is beginning to take hold in many of America’s schools. And so far the results have not been pretty. Kersten, an attorney and a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, shows that one
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IMF Head Muses On the End of Banking, Triumph of Digital Currencies 0
- Economics
- October 2, 2017
In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies. Christine Lagarde–a Paris native who has held her
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