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What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch 0
- History
- August 8, 2017
Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but it was the flattery of his courtiers that convinced the emperor he could get away with it. In his essay, “How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend,” the late Roman historian Plutarch gestures at Nero, speculating that if the emperor had known to silence his flatterers,
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Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’4
- Education
- August 8, 2017
Here in my city, parents with privilege have many choices. They can send their children to progressive private schools with no grades and no tests, Montessori or Waldorf schools that each focus on a specific value system and learning philosophy, parochial schools, or traditional independent schools. They can also choose to send their children to
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Why Atheists Read the Bible Like Fundamentalists 3
- Religion
- August 8, 2017
Benjamin Corey is a formerly fundamentalist Christian scholar who claims to have had some fruitful dialogue with atheists. Having examined the evidence, I agree with that claim. But he remains puzzled by a tendency I too have noticed: atheists often read the Bible just like fundamentalists! For instance, Corey has fun rebutting an atheist who
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Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
Google engineer James Damore had a Jerry Maguire moment. And he ended up exactly like Jerry Maguire. Damore was fired by Google this week after his 10-page memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” ignited a storm of criticism. The memo, the text of which can be read here, suggested that biological differences could
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Should a Christian be a Foodie?0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
One of the highly celebrated pleasures of our time is fine cuisine. All manner of foodie hotspots have sprung up as TV shows and social media continue to popularize delicious, unique food. But should Christians partake in the foodie culture? Not long ago, Christians saw abstaining from worldly pleasures as a way to deny the
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Why U.S. Schools Don’t Produce Adults 6
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
One of the hallmarks of modern America is the tendency toward prolonged childhood. While it used to be the norm to enter the adult working world by one’s mid-to-late teens, students now extend their preparation for career well into their twenties (and sometimes beyond), enabled by parents who act as their caretakers, education experts who
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