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Why People Rarely Take the Last Donut at Meetings (But the Coffee Runs Dry)2
- Economics
- September 21, 2017
As a professor, I’ve attended many administrative meetings. The one near-constant thing I, and others, have noticed at these meetings is that the coffee always runs out, but at least a small remnant of a donut remains. Why this occurs tells a great deal about how we use social norms to solve pool resource problems
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When the West Lost the Battle of Ideas 0
- History
- September 21, 2017
The dismantling of the idea of the West began when medieval philosophers began re-introducing the Sophist notions reduced to ashes by Socrates. This reintroduction came about as a reaction to extreme scholasticism in the Middle Ages. It was a fascinating thought experiment known as nominalism, but it unwittingly wrought massive damage upon the very ways
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We Had to Pull the Article on Indoctrination 0
- Culture
- September 21, 2017
Yesterday, we published a piece on indoctrination and propaganda in an American high school. After it went up, we found out there was confusion about sharing the documents and the family who drew attention to the questionable handouts worried about the repercussions to their student. Having been on the receiving end of such repercussions in
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Tech Execs Limit Their Kids’ Screen Time 0
- Education
- September 21, 2017
In September 2014, the New York Times published an article whose headline came as a shock to many: “Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent.” The article’s author, Nick Bilton, reported that he was surprised when Jobs told him back in 2010 that “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” But as it
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Stanislav Petrov Saved the World By Thinking For Himself Instead of Following Orders 0
- History
- September 21, 2017
The world recently learned of the death of the Soviet military hero Stanislav Petrov who saved the world from nuclear war. In 1983, Colonel Petrov was on duty to detect incoming missiles aimed for the Soviet Union. His computer console told him that there were five incoming nuclear missiles. Without any evidence, Petrov made the
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C.S. Lewis Explains What’s Wrong with Today’s High School English Courses 3
- Culture
- September 21, 2017
My colleague Devin Foley recently had a high school literature assignment come across his desk. As he explains so aptly here, the assignment did not touch on any of the ideas contained in classic literary works; instead, it asks students to research modern, social-justice related issues, such as Black Lives Matter, Confederate statues, and gender
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